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Prohibition : thirteen years that changed America / Edward Behr.
- Title
- Prohibition : thirteen years that changed America / Edward Behr.
- Author
- Behr, Edward, 1926-2007.
- Publication
- New York : Arcade Pub., c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV5089 .B424 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 262 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Chronicles the Prohibition era in the U.S. from 1920 to 1933; and traces the rise of the Temperance movement, speakeasies, and gangsters including Pretty Boy Floyd, Lucky Luciano, and Al Capone.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Companion to the A&E special presentation"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-252) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The good creature of God -- Fervor and fanaticism -- The women's war -- The lineup -- Prohibition's first victims -- America goes dry -- The providers -- Harding and the racketeers -- Remus unravels -- The adventurers -- Prohibition works! -- Prohibition doesn't work! -- Chicago -- Remus on trial -- Remus redux -- A fatal triumph -- The aftermath.
- ISBN
- 9781611450095 (pbk.)
- 1611450098 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011004232
- OCLC
- 679921068
- SCSB-11850705
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library