This is a mangled allusion to the actual novel The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (Maurer 24). One last characteristic of the youthful American Dream of the 1920s was the defiance of Prohibition. In The Great Gatsby, the main characters have absolutely no problems defying the eighteenth amendment prohibiting the sale of liquor...
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The Buchanans and their guests drink often, and with no regard for the illegality of that act (Fitzgerald 15). After 16 January 1920, when Prohibition officially went into effect (Cayton 699), the sale of “medicinal” alcohol rose, and bootlegging and moonshining operations sprang up across the nation (Behr 84-85)...
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