Research Catalog

Title

Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.

Author

Okrent, Daniel, 1948-

Publication

New York, NY : Scribner, 2010.

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Details

Description

vii, 468 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.

Subjects

• Drinking of alcoholic beverages > United States > History > 20th century
• United States > History > 20th century
• Prohibition > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-453) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 10-4397

ISBN

• 9780743277020 (hbk.)
• 9780743277044 (trade pbk.)
• 0743277023 (hbk.)
• 074327704X (trade pbk.)
• 9781439171691 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 1439171696 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2009051127

OCLC

419812305

Author

Okrent, Daniel, 1948-

Title

Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.

Imprint

New York, NY : Scribner, 2010.

Edition

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-453) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-4397