Ardent Spirits PB
John Kobler$21.24
$24.99
"This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative."--Smithsonian
Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1993
ISBN: 9780306805127
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.43w x 0.95d
Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1993
ISBN: 9780306805127
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.43w x 0.95d