Prohibition GangstersMaster story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition eramen born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment. On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution went into effect in the United States, outlawing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. A group of young criminals from immigrant backgrounds in cities