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forgive this lapse into political science for a moment--
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but the Anti-Saloon League practically
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defined the modern interest group.
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It was one of the first
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political science studies of interest groups
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was a now classic monograph from the 1920s
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analyzing the ASL's success
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as an interest group in moving prohibition through Congress'
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then as now complicated channels in achieving
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this remarkable constitutional amendment that again,
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banned sale production of alcohol
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for fifteen years in American life.