| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes. By Ann-Marie E. Szymanski. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xvi, 325 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 0-8223-3181-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-3169-1.)

The political scientist Ann-Marie E. Szymanski has written a rigorously analytical survey of national Prohibition's strategic and tactical origins. Utilizing social science hypotheses about social movements, she effectively synthesizes the wealth of empirical historical studies on Prohibition for the Progressive period. The Anti-Saloon League (ASL) she interprets as a moderate organization that replaced the absolutism of earlier prohibitionists and succeeded because it harmonized with local groups, adopting their incremental goals. Through organizing local option campaigns that flushed out the intransigent opposition of liquor sellers, the ASL turned its followers gradually toward state and national Prohibition. This interpretation is not entirely new, but it is welcome.

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