![]() That habit, Burns says, led to a temperance movement initially intended to encourage people to drink less, not nothing. The early installments of Prohibition paint the America that got itself into Prohibition as a nation that indeed had a massive drinking habit - several times as much alcohol as we consume now. Burns' Prohibition, beginning Sunday night on PBS, serves as the follow-up to his past series on topics as diverse as the Civil War, Jazz, the National Park system, and baseball. "We were awash in alcohol in the 19th century," says documentarian Ken Burns in a discussion with Audie Cornish on Weekend Edition Sunday. Ken Burns' Prohibition airs beginning Sunday night on PBS. Agents pour out alcohol into the gutter during a raid.
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