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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, crammed with history, revelation, drama, and opinion. It’s both an eye-opener to the past, and a remarkable metaphor for the woozy present we’re reeling through today. In 1933 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. commissioned Raymond Fosdick and Albert Scott to study alcohol regulation and prepare America for the return of legal alcohol and its regulation. They produced //Toward Liquor Control//, which provided guidance to policymakers as they set up regulatory systems for alcohol, and much of that framework still exists today. This reprint is an opportunity for today’s citizens to understand many of the origins of modern alcohol regulation in the United States Fosdick and Scott’s //Toward Liquor Control// has done more to shape modern alcohol policy than any other book except the Bible. Does Toward Liquor Control explain why Prohibition failed? It’s in there. What are the dangers of bootleggers and lack of respect for the law? In there. Does it explain why alcohol manufacturers should not own retailers? Does it discuss alcohol taxation? State run liquor stores? Why lower alcohol products like beer and wine should be regulated differently than hard liquor? Political activities by the alcohol industry? The need for strong and independent state alcohol regulators? Tied house laws? Alcohol advertising? The problems of drunk driving and growing use of specialty mechanical operations? The need for, but limits of, education related to alcohol and its use? It’s all in there. Items that this book addresses are still relevant to modern William Anderson was one of the most successful lobbyists of the Anti-Saloon League (ASL). The "dry warrior" used such tactics as false rumors, forged documents, character attacks, and intimidation. The combative political operative's tactics were enough to "make your blood run cold and your hair stand up" reported one victim of Anderson's machinations, Thaddeus Sweet, Speaker of the New York State The //New York Times// expressed concern over Anderson's bigotry. He attacked Jews, Irish, Italians and others whose cultures generally included the consumption of alcohol. However, Catholics were a special target of Anderson's bigotry. Anderson's tactics successfully helped the League and other drys change the United States Constitution.
 * John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.** (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was a major and a pivotal member of the prominent . He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers. In biographies, he was invariably referred to as "Junior" to distinguish him from his more celebrated father, known as "Senior".