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The Chemist's War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
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Deborah Blum is a professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
Photograph of police at brewery courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.
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