Last call: the rise and fall of Prohibition, 1920-1933

✍ Scribed by Daniel Okrent

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 850 KB
• Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, United States, United States.
• ISBN: 074327704X

✦ Synopsis

Explores the factors that led to Prohibition, and discusses what life was like under Prohibition and how the country was changed by this unprecedented government interference in the private lives of its citizens.;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.

✦ Subjects

United States