Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.
Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
2010
HV5089 .O47 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.
Author Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
Edition First Scribner hardcover ed.
ISBN 9780743277020
0743277023
9780743277044 (trade pbk.)
074327704X (trade pbk.)
Publication Details New York : Scribner, 2010.
Language English
Description viii, 468 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HV5089 .O47 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.4/1097309042
Summary Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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January 16, 1920
pt. 1. The struggle
Thunderous drums and Protestant nuns
The rising of liquid bread
The most remarkable movement
"Open fire on the enemy"
Triumphant failure
Dry-drys, wet-drys, and hyphens
From Magna Carta to Volstead
pt. 2. The flood
Starting line
A fabulous sweepstakes
Leaks in the dotted line
The Great Whiskey Way
Blessed be the fruit of the vine
The alcohol that got away
The way we drank
pt. 3. The war of the wet and the dry
Open wounds
"Escaped on payment of money"
Crime pays
The phony referendum
pt. 4. The beginning of the end, the end, and after
Outrageous excess
The hummingbird that went to Mars
Afterlives, and the missing man
Appendix : The Constitution of the United States of America.

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