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Ardent Spirits PB
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This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative.--SmithsonianArdent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and…
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- Author: John Kobler
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- ISBN-10: 030680512X
- ISBN-13: 9780306805127
- Format: 13.8 x 20.9 x 2.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative.--SmithsonianArdent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
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- Author: John Kobler
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- ISBN-10: 030680512X
- ISBN-13: 9780306805127
- Format: 13.8 x 20.9 x 2.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative.--Smithsonian
Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
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