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Blue Note The Final Days Of Prohibition Volume 2
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Book Synopsis Blue note - The Final Days of Prohibition - Volume 2 by : Mathieu Mariolle
Download or read book Blue note - The Final Days of Prohibition - Volume 2 written by Mathieu Mariolle and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2017-10-18T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While jaded veteran boxer Jack Doyle fights for his life in the ring, naive young guitarist R.J. plays for his on the stage of Dante's Lodge—the city's most (in)famous jazz club. Vincenzo, its ruthless Sicilian boss, has a soft spot for the blues—and for Miss Lena. He'll do anything to keep her and R.J. for himself and, with Prohibition about to end, wants to make a killing before his "protected" world comes crashing down around him. But both he and R.J. have an even more merciless enemy in opportunist Theo Egan. What chance does young R.J. have?
Book Synopsis Blue note - The final days of prohibition - Volume 1 by : Mathieu Mariolle
Download or read book Blue note - The final days of prohibition - Volume 1 written by Mathieu Mariolle and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2017-09-13T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York. November 1933. Seven years of Prohibition is about to come to an end—seven years of mafia control of the illegal alcohol trade, of high-level corruption ... and of the speakeasy, whose clientele enjoy not only liquor, but the Golden Age of Jazz. A world Irish boxer Jack Doyle is reluctantly drawn back to, to settle old scores. But what he thinks will be a simple fight turns into a web of exploitation and double-dealing ... and a tangle with the elusive Miss Lena. To get free he will have to use all his native cunning...
Download or read book Last Call written by Daniel Okrent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.
Book Synopsis Wicked Charleston, Volume 2 by : Mark R. Jones
Download or read book Wicked Charleston, Volume 2 written by Mark R. Jones and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up volume, Mark R. Jones uncovers the seedy and wicked past of Charleston: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition. The city of Charleston, South Carolina, with its matchless Southern charm, has sparkled gem-like on the Carolina coast for more than three hundred years. The Holy City, as it is known, has been a cherished home to generations and an inviting destination for visitors from all over the world, who come to tour its celebrated historic sites and to bask in both the warm sun and the famous Southern hospitality. But below the gleaming surface of Charleston, there has always been a darker side--a second history that has been hidden and denied by those who retell the city's story, and by those who have lived it. Charleston has played host to a wide variety of unsavory characters, and has seen scores of sordid deeds played out on its cobbled streets, beneath flickering gaslights. Wicked Charleston, Volume 2: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition is a captivating companion to Mark Jones's hugely popular Wicked Charleston. In this new book, Jones reveals more of the city's seedy history--from drinking and prostitution to murder and crooked politics--offering a rarely seen glimpse of a sinister side of Charleston's past.
Download or read book The Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Digest; Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World by : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Download or read book Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by : Anonymous
Download or read book Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by : Helen Taylor
Download or read book Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle written by Helen Taylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book Law Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Book written by Jamaica and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CMJ New Music Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Monthly, the first consumer magazine to include a bound-in CD sampler, is the leading publication for the emerging music enthusiast. NMM is a monthly magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each magazine comes with a CD of 15-24 songs by well-established bands, unsigned bands and everything in between. It is published by CMJ Network, Inc.
Download or read book Sittin' In written by Jeff Gold and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of America’s jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, featuring exclusive interviews and over 200 souvenir photos. In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened their doors to both Black and white performers and club goers in Jim Crow America. In this extraordinary collection, Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold looks back at this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and American culture, and the spaces at the center of artistic and social change. Sittin’ In is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre—Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others—were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, Black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening’s entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club’s name and logo. Sittin’ In tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you’ll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; jazz great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; jazz musician and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and jazz critic Dan Morgenstern. Gold surveys America’s jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). This collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.
Book Synopsis Blue Book for the Island of Jamaica by : Jamaica
Download or read book Blue Book for the Island of Jamaica written by Jamaica and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Weekly Notes by : Frederick Pollock
Download or read book The Weekly Notes written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
