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With the passing of the Volstead Act, the United States embraced Prohibition as the law of the land. From 1920 to 1933, the well-intentioned ban of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors gave rise to a flourishing culture of bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt officials. This witty and perceptive history by Herbert Asbury, the bestselling author of The Gangs of New York, offers a wide-ranging survey of the Prohibition era...
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"Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era--men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905--who 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...
14) Little Caesar
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A small-time hoodlum rises to criminal fame and power. Adapted from W.R. Burnett's novel.
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In the early days of the nation, men drink cider and beer all day long and at nearly every occasion, from barn-raisings and baptisms to funerals and public hangings. But as hard whiskey becomes increasingly affordable and saloons turn more and more drunks into the gutter, America seems to have become a nation of drunkards. Unable to vote, women in Ohio shut down taverns by praying on their doorsteps. In Kansas, Carrie Nation attacks hotel bars with...
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On January 16, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution goes into effect, making it illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell intoxicating liquor. As millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight, enforcement of the new law is almost impossible. A lawyer in Cincinnati and a policeman in Seattle jettison their careers for the far more profitable trade of bootlegging. Across the country, in countless backyards, chicken coops, and...
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The Prohibition Hangover examines the modern American temperament toward drink amid the $189-billion- dollar-a-year industry that defines itself by the production, distribution, marketing, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Based on primary research, including hundreds of interviews, Garrett Peck provides a panoramic assessment of alcohol in American culture and history.
19) Blood harvest
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"What drives a small town in 1929 New England to lynch a man? When immigrant Nick DeCosta elopes with the wild youngest daughter of the MacKay clan, the county's leading moonshiners, the stage is set for disaster"--Jacket flap.
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