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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ambrose, Hugh, author.     Subjects     Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 1889-1963.     Davis, Dwight, Mrs., 1887-1955.     Prohibition -- United States.     Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- History -- 1919-1933.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ambrose, Hugh, author.       by title:      Liberated spirits : ...         MARC Display

Liberated spirits : two women who battled over Prohibition / Hugh Ambrose, with John Schuttler. by Ambrose, Hugh, author. New York : Berkley, 2018. Subjects Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 1889-1963.   Davis, Dwight, Mrs., 1887-1955.   Prohibition -- United States.   Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   United States -- History -- 1919-1933. ISBN:  9780451414649 (hardcover) 0451414640 (hardcover) Description:  360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 discrimination to rise in the ranks of the Republican Party. While Prohibition meant little to her personally--aristocrats never lost access to booze--she seized the fight to repeal it as a platform to bring newly enfranchised women into the political process and compete on an equal footing with men. Along with a colorful cast of supporting characters, from rumrunners and Prohibition agents on the take to senators and feuding society matrons, Liberated Spirits brings the Roaring Twenties to life in a brand new way.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 344.0541 Am Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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