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'Prohibition' premiere review: Get drunk on this good stuff
Watching Prohibition, you can almost hear Ken Burns knock back a shot of Bushmills, slam the glass on the bar, and yell, “Yee haw — let's make us some television!” There's a hot-cheeked vigor to this three-night production on PBS, ... read more

Burns' 'Prohibition' looks at the fruits of forbidding alcohol
Airing Sunday through Tuesday, Oct. 2-4, on PBS (check local listings), "Prohibition," from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick -- who most recently teamed up for "'The War" -- looks at the forces that brought about the National Prohibition ... read more

Prohibition: America's failed "noble experiment"
They're the results - direct and indirect - of Prohibition, the nearly 14-year period from 1920 to 1933 when the manufacture, sale or transportation of "intoxicating liquor" was illegal in this country. The nightclub - the "speakeasies" of the time of ... read more

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