This three-part series examines the period leading up to the Prohibition era, the wild years of illegal bootlegging that began once the 18th Amendment was passed, before America's dawning awareness that this law had to be repealed to diminish organized crime. This volume looks at such teetotalers as Carrie Nation, who picked up an ax and then destroyed a saloon all by herself to protest the use of alcohol, and politicians like Wayne Wheeler, who practically invented the modern practice of lobbying. Some say that many defiant Americans toasted the new ban on alcohol with a bit of liquor, vowing that no one would ever control their drinking habits. ~ Elizabeth Smith, All Movie Guide