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Ardent spirits : the rise and fall of prohibition
- Title
- Ardent spirits : the rise and fall of prohibition / by John Kobler.
- Author
- Kobler, John
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1973]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | ILH 15-805 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 386 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "It is here at last -- dry America's first birthday," proclaimed the Anti-Saloon League of New York. The date was January 16, 1920, a Friday. "At one minute past twelve tomorrow morning a new nation will be born ... Tonight John Barleycorn makes his last will and testament. Now for an era of clear thinking and clean living! The Anti-Saloon League wishes every man, woman, and child a happy New Dry Year."--Page [11].
- Alternative Title
- Rise and fall of prohibition
- Prohibition
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-373).
- Contents
- Elegy for Hell's best friend -- 1. Temperance 1609-1860. The true instaurator -- A sin that excludes from heaven -- Of Washingtonians, cold water soldiers, rechabites and others -- Strange bedfellows -- 2. The Party, the Union, the League 1869-1919. James Black for president -- They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry -- Organized mother love -- Ethics be hanged -- The barrage -- 3. The noble experiment 1920-1934. This law will be obeyed -- Our little band of martyrs -- The poison cup -- The instant millionaires -- Nabobs and Bacchantes -- Epilogue 1973.
- Call Number
- ILH 15-805
- ISBN
- 039911209X
- 9780399112096
- LCCN
- 73078586
- OCLC
- 762700
- Author
- Kobler, John, author.
- Title
- Ardent spirits : the rise and fall of prohibition / by John Kobler.
- Imprint
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1973]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-373).
- Indexed Term
- Prohibition United States HistoryProhibition Party (U.S.)Temperance History
- Research Call Number
- ILH 15-805