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Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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Prohibition -- United States.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Last call : the rise...
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Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.
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Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
New York, NY : Scribner, 2010.
Subjects
Prohibition -- United States.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780743277020 (hbk.) :
0743277023 (hbk.)
9780743277044 (trade pbk.)
074327704X (trade pbk.)
Description:
viii, 468 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Contents:
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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