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Liberated spirits: two women who battled over Prohibition

✍ Scribed by Hugh Ambrose; John Schuttler

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Berkley
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 247 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0698183630

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✦ Synopsis

A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject --Prohibition--by bestselling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.
The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These two Constitutional Amendments enabled women to redefine themselves and their place in society in a way historians have neglected to explore. Liberated Spirits describes how the fight both to pass and later to repeal Prohibition was driven by women, as exemplified by two remarkable women in particular.
With fierce drive and acumen, Mabel Willebrandt transcended the tremendous hurdles facing women lawyers and was appointed Assistant Attorney General. Though never a Prohibition campaigner, once in office she zealously pursued enforcement despite a corrupt and ineffectual agency.
Wealthy Pauline Sabin had no formal education in law or government but she too fought entrenched...

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