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Book Synopsis Prohibition in Washington, D.C. by : Garrett Peck
Download or read book Prohibition in Washington, D.C. written by Garrett Peck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on—a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation’s capital. Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC’s speakeasies—every week. The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. This rollicking history brims with stories of vice—topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Discover an underground city ruled not by organized crime but by amateur bootleggers, where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz. Includes photos!
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 “Omission” not “Prohibition.” A letter to ... the Archbishop of Canterbury: being a plea for the continuance of primitive and catholic usages, etc by : Charles Stephen GRUEBER
Download or read book “Omission” not “Prohibition.” A letter to ... the Archbishop of Canterbury: being a plea for the continuance of primitive and catholic usages, etc written by Charles Stephen GRUEBER and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bills To Amend the National Prohibition Act Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1718 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis National Prohibition Law by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bills To Amend the National Prohibition Act
Download or read book National Prohibition Law written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bills To Amend the National Prohibition Act and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (69) S. 33, (69) S. 34, (69) S. 591, (69) S. 592, (69) S. 3118, (69) S.J. Res. 34, (69) S.J. Res. 81, (69) S.J. Res. 85, (69) S. 3823, (69) S. 3411, (69) S. 3891.
Book Synopsis Letters From the People by : Ralph E. Shaffer
Download or read book Letters From the People written by Ralph E. Shaffer and published by The Endangered History Project. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, Los Angeles was a rough, frontier community more in touch with the past than the future. The city had two dailies, the Herald and the Express, and the founding of the Times drew only modest attention. Then, in 1882, Harrison Gray Otis launched a formal column, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Hundreds of letter writers used the column to call attention to the matters they thought should be the immediate concern of all Angelenos. While historians have recorded the euphoria of skyrocketing real estate prices, mass migration from the east, the Americanization of the city, and the growth of specific industries and institutions, life in Los Angeles can only be fully understood by examining the concerns of its citizens. The topics discussed reveal a Los Angeles that was occupied with concerns that still divide us today: education, crime, unequal justice, immigration, the treatment of minorities, women's rights, health care, transit, water, the river, lack of infrastructure, and government's negative effect on the business climate. Derived from more than 2,000 letters to the editor, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE is an in-depth anthology supplemented with much historical data about the writers and events that shaped early Los Angeles on the eve of its explosive growth.
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 National Prohibition Law by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book The National Prohibition Law written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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.
Book Synopsis The Law of Prohibition by : William Joseph McFadden
Download or read book The Law of Prohibition written by William Joseph McFadden and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the American Temperance Union : and the New-York Prohibitionist by :
Download or read book Journal of the American Temperance Union : and the New-York Prohibitionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Provide for a Bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book To Provide for a Bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 28.
Book Synopsis The Prohibition Amendment by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book The Prohibition Amendment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 2066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights by : Sean Beienburg
Download or read book Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights written by Sean Beienburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado’s legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado’s legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many who freely invoke the Tenth Amendment, seemed to be attacking the progressive state for asserting states’ rights. Unusual as this may seem, this has happened before—in the early part of the twentieth century, as America concluded a decades-long struggle over the suppression of alcohol during Prohibition. Sean Beienburg recovers a largely forgotten constitutional debate, revealing how Prohibition became a battlefield on which skirmishes of American political development, including the debate over federalism and states’ rights, were fought. Beienburg focuses on the massive extension of federal authority involved in Prohibition and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, describing the roles and reactions of not just Congress, the presidents, and the Supreme Court but political actors throughout the states, who jockeyed with one another to claim fidelity to the Tenth Amendment while reviling nationalism and nullification alike. The most comprehensive treatment of the constitutional debate over Prohibition to date, the book concludes with a discussion of the parallels and differences between Prohibition in the 1920s and debates about the legalization of marijuana today.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers by : Randall C. Jimerson
Download or read book Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers written by Randall C. Jimerson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proposed Modification of the Prohibition Law to Permit the Manufacture, Sale and Use of 2.75 Per Cent Beverages by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Proposed Modification of the Prohibition Law to Permit the Manufacture, Sale and Use of 2.75 Per Cent Beverages written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on expenditures in the executive departments Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :282 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Transfer of Prohibition Unit. Hearings ... on H.R. 8574, a Bill to Transfer to the Attorney General Certain Functions in the Administration of the National Prohibition Act, to Create a Bureau of Prohibition in the Department of Justice ... Washington, 1930 by : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on expenditures in the executive departments
Download or read book Transfer of Prohibition Unit. Hearings ... on H.R. 8574, a Bill to Transfer to the Attorney General Certain Functions in the Administration of the National Prohibition Act, to Create a Bureau of Prohibition in the Department of Justice ... Washington, 1930 written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on expenditures in the executive departments and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
