Dry Manhattan

Dry Manhattan
Author: Michael A. Lerner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674040090

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In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.


Dry Manhattan
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Michael A. Lerner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsucces
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Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Ellen NicKenzie Lawson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Uses previously unstudied Coast Guard records for New York City and environs to examine the development of Rum Row and smuggling in New York City during Prohibi
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Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Marc Mappen
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-06 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era—men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1
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Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Allan S. Everest
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-28 - Publisher: Syracuse Unbound

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During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast buck smuggling
Last Call
Language: en
Pages: 506
Authors: Daniel Okrent
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict