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Episode Synopsis
Mark Twain once said, 'It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.' Discover what it was like to be a Prohibition bootlegger in the United States after January 17, 1920, when the nation's fifth-largest industry became illegal. Learn about the rise of smuggling alcohol, inventive ways of hiding liquor, and the eventual end of Prohibition in 1933.
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