The Roaring Twenties shimmied into American life with a wink and a flask tucked into a garter— Prohibition had arrived! Uncle Sam wagged his finger at booze, but Americans just got craftier, spawning basement speakeasies where gangsters like Al Capone turned smuggling hooch into a booming business. By 1933, even the government had to admit: this nationwide sobriety experiment had flopped spectacularly.
