Ardent Spirits: The Rise And Fall Of Prohibition - Softcover

Kobler, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030680512X ISBN 13: 9780306805127

Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1993

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"This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative."--Smithsonian

Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.

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John Kobler's (1910-2000) many books include biographies of John Barrymore, Henry Luce, John Hunter, and Otto Kahn. He wrote for the New Yorker and other magazines, and lived in New York City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Da Capo Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 030680512X
• ISBN 13: 9780306805127
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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