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Book Synopsis Prohibition, Or Local Option by : Joseph Nelson Harris
Download or read book Prohibition, Or Local Option written by Joseph Nelson Harris and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Local Option and Its Role in Prohibition by : Edward Bauman
Download or read book Local Option and Its Role in Prohibition written by Edward Bauman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cyclopædia of Temperance and Prohibition by : Walter W. Spooner
Download or read book The Cyclopædia of Temperance and Prohibition written by Walter W. Spooner and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prohibition Option by : Mark Lawrence Schrad
Download or read book The Prohibition Option written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alcohol and Public Policy by : National Research Council
Download or read book Alcohol and Public Policy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fallacies of Prohibition and Local Option Laws by : W. J. McSweeney
Download or read book The Fallacies of Prohibition and Local Option Laws written by W. J. McSweeney and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs by : Charles Michael Higgins
Download or read book Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs written by Charles Michael Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pleas for Prohibition by : Samuel White Small
Download or read book Pleas for Prohibition written by Samuel White Small and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prohibition Movement in Its Broader Bearings Upon Our Social, Commercial and Religious Liberties by : Percy Andreae
Download or read book The Prohibition Movement in Its Broader Bearings Upon Our Social, Commercial and Religious Liberties written by Percy Andreae and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs by : Chas; M. Higgins
Download or read book Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs written by Chas; M. Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs: Freedom in Choice of Food and Drink Is an Unalienable Right of the American People; Dedicated to the President and Addressed to the Opponents and Advocates of National Prohibition About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Prohibition Versus High License and Local Option by : Vermont Local Option League
Download or read book Prohibition Versus High License and Local Option written by Vermont Local Option League and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis State Prohibition and Local Option by : Jos Rowntree
Download or read book State Prohibition and Local Option written by Jos Rowntree and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Thoughtful Article for Thoughtful People on Prohibition and Local Option by : William A. Wasson
Download or read book A Thoughtful Article for Thoughtful People on Prohibition and Local Option written by William A. Wasson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Thoughtful Article for Thoughtful People on Prohibition and Local Option: Together With Methods Suggested for the Regulation of the Liquor Traffic and for the Promotion of Temperance Liquor legislation must necessarily fol low one of two general policies. It may aim at the abolition of the liquor traffic, or at the regulation of the traffic. These two policies are extreme Opposites at every point and in every feature. The object of one is to kill, that of the other is to cure. It is on this broad question of general policy that the peoeple are divided today. No. Legislative system has ever been more extensively nor fairly tested than that of prohibition. During the last sixty years it has been tried on the statewide scale in many different sections of the country and under the most diverse social and political conditions, the periods of trial ranging from three years in Nebraska to fifty-three years in Vermont. By its re cord, by what it has done and'by what it has not done, prohibition must be judged. On every page of that record, from be ginning to end, are written the words fail ure, folly, farce. Nowhere and at no time, in all its history, has prohibition aecom plished a single one of its avowed objects. Nowhere has it abolished the liquor traffic; nowhere has it prevented the. Consumption of liquor nor lessened the evil of intemper ance. Neither as a state-wide system nor under Local Option has prohibition ever made the slightest contribution toward the solution of the liquor problem. '1he one solitary service that it has rendered to society is that of furnishing a warning ex ample oi the supreme folly of attempting to legislate virtue into men's lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition by : Kenneth D. Rose
Download or read book American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition written by Kenneth D. Rose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose (history, California State U.) analyzes the political mechanisms used to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol. What makes the work unique is his emphasis on the role of women's organizations in both prohibition and repeal, and how the arguments used by women's organizations to promote the Eighteenth Amendment in 1923 were used by opponents to repeal it in 1933--specifically, the idea of "home protection," which was a socialist feminist ideology held by both groups. The author is dedicated to recovering the history of politically conservative women who have been traditionally ignored or dismissed in other historical studies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic by Local Option in the United States of America by : T. P. Whittaker
Download or read book Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic by Local Option in the United States of America written by T. P. Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by : Lisa McGirr
Download or read book The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State written by Lisa McGirr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.