Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition / Karen Blumenthal.

1st ed.

9781596434493
159643449X

New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2011 (Printed in the United States of America)

English

154 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

HV5089 .B66 2011

363.4/1097309042

For more than a decade starting in 1920, millions of regular Americans ignored the law of the land. Parents became bootleggers, kids smuggled illegal alcohol, and outlaws became celebrities. It wasn't supposed to be that way, of course. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, supporters believed it would create a better, stronger nation. Instead it began an era of lawlessness, when famous gangsters like Al Capone rose to fame, and many reconsidered their concept of right and wrong. This is the story of those years in American history-- the story of prohibition.

"Book design by Jay Colvin"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138) and index.

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