PROHIBITION PA

by BEHR,EDWARD

• ISBN13: 9781611450095
• ISBN10: 1611450098
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-05-17
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Summary

From the bestselling author of The Last Emperor comes this rip-roaring history of the government s attempt to end America s love affair with liquor which failed miserably. On January 16, 1920, America went dry. For the next thirteen years, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transportation of intoxicating liquors, heralding a new era of crime and corruption on all levels of society. Instead of eliminating alcohol, Prohibition spurred more drinking than ever before. Formerly law-abiding citizens brewed moonshine, became rum- runners, and frequented speakeasies. Druggists, who could dispense medicinal quantities of alcohol, found their customer base exploding overnight. So many people from all walks of life defied the ban that Will Rogers famously quipped, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. Here is the full, rollicking story of those tumultuous days, from the flappers of the Jazz Age and the beautiful and the damned who drank their lives away in smoky speakeasies to bootlegging gangsters Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone and the notorious St. Valentine s Day Massacre. Edward Behr paints a portrait of an era that changed the country forever.

Author Biography

Edward Behr, a veteran journalist and war correspondent, was the author of The Last Emperor, The Complete Book of Les Miserables, The Story of Miss Saigon, and Hirohito. He died in 2007.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Good Creature of God	p. 7
Fervor and Fanaticism	p. 21
The Women's War	p. 35
The Lineup	p. 45
Prohibition's First Victims	p. 63
America Goes Dry	p. 77
The Providers	p. 91
Harding and the Racketeers	p. 105
Remus Unravels	p. 121
The Adventurers	p. 129
ôProhibition Works!ö	p. 147
ôProhibition Doesn't Work!ö	p. 161
Chicago	p. 175
Remus on Trial	p. 195
Remus Redux	p. 209
A Fatal Triumph	p. 221
The Aftermath	p. 237
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 253
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