Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2010Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: viii, 468 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780743277020
- 9780743277044
- 0743277023
- 074327704X
- 363.4/1097309042 22
- HV5089 .O47 2010
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363.34 SUN AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, THEIR PROHIBITION AND THE RELATION TO BIOSAFETY | 363.37 OSU NEW YORK'S BRAVEST | 363.4 MCC I AM ROE | 363.4 OKR Last call : | 363.4 REA When abortion was a crime : | 363.45 CHEPESI The war on drugs : | 363.6 KAR 120 banned books : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-453) and index.
January 16, 1920 -- The struggle. Thunderous drums and Protestant nuns ; The rising of liquid bread ; The most remarkable movement ; "Open fire on the enemy" ; Triumphant failure ; Dry-drys, wet-drys, and hyphens ; From Magna Carta to Volstead -- The flood. Starting line ; A fabulous sweepstakes ; Leaks in the dotted line ; The Great Whiskey Way ; Blessed be the fruit of the vine ; The alcohol that got away ; The way we drank -- The war of the wet and the dry. Open wounds ; "Escaped on payment of money" ; Crime pays ; The phony referendum -- The beginning of the end, the end, and after. Outrageous excess ; The hummingbird that went to Mars ; Afterlives, and the missing man.
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