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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Prohibition is a big headache for some. . and a big payday for others, the fearless entrepreneurs with little respect for the law of the land. With $125,000 worth of Kentucky's finest homemade whiskey in his possession, big, hell-raising Son Martin counts himself among the latter. Son knows having this much illegal hooch makes him a very tasty target, but nobody's going to steal it from him. Ware may be coming to his backyard, but Son's not worried....
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Chronicle of the thirteen years of Prohibition in the United States, the period from 1920 to 1933 when citizens were denied the right to buy or sell alcoholic drink, tracing the rise of the Temperance movement, and providing a complete account of George Remus, a lawyer who became a leading and very influential bootlegger.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prohibition - Episode 2: A Nation of Scoffaws On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution goes into effect, making it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor. Episode Two, A Nation of Scofflaws, examines the problems of enforcement, as millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight. While a significant portion of the country is willing to adapt to the new law, others are shocked at how inconsistent...
7) Prohibition
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prohibition - Episode 3: A Nation of Hypocrites In the mid 1920s, an unprecedented winning streak continues on Wall Street, and it feels to many like the good times will go on forever. Americans during the Jazz Age, writes F. Scott Fitzgerald, are "a whole race gone hedonistic, deciding on pleasure." Prohibition, with its moralistic underpinnings, begins to feel anachronistic at best. In Episode 3, A Nation of Hypocrites, support for the law diminishes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prohibition - Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards Americans have argued over alcohol for centuries. Since the early years of the American Republic, drinking has been at least as American as apple pie. As Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards begins, clergymen, craftsmen and canal-diggers drink. So do the crowds of men who turn out for barn-raisings and baptisms, funerals, elections and public hangings. Tankards of cider are kept by farmhouses' front doors,...
10) Live by night
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An absorbing and at times ironical humorous picture of the battle of Prohibition. Recommended. Library Journal With the passing of the Volstead Act, the United States embraced Prohibition as the law of the land. From 1920 to 1933, the well-intentioned ban of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors gave rise to a flourishing culture of bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt officials. This witty and perceptive history by Herbert...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Examines the failed attempts to bring about moral reform through prohibition in 1919, emphasizing its effects specifically in New York City where the Eighteenth Amendment created new markets for illegal alcohol as well as an increase in corruption and crime.
Author
Series
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 7
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear...
16) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the roaring twenties and prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
17) Prohibition
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Documents the history of the Prohibition, from 1920, when, after a century of debate, the United States outlaws the manufacture and sale of alcohol, to the early 1930s when the amendment is repealed.
18) Sonoma Rose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
19) Hang the moon
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The names have been changed to protect the guilty, but this is an otherwise-authentic firsthand account of liquor smuggling during Prohibition. Crackling with excitement and adventure, it ranges from "Rum Row" - where boats anchor beyond the three-mile limit until their illicit cargo can be transferred to speedboats and delivered into the eager hands of bootleggers - to backwoods cabin hideaways and society drawing rooms. Danger haunts every step...
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