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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition

Author Karen Blumenthal

Format Hardcover

Publisher Flash Point

Category United States History

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It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off�when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, when children smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.

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Karen Blumenthal

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Release Date: 2011-05-24
Publisher: Flash Point
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781596434493

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