02156nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200210009010000230011124500580013426000320019230000260022436500160025052013490026665000230161565000430163865000220168165000250170370000250172894200120175399900190176595201060178420220330112456.0220330b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0140272550  cAloy  aeng  223a363.41bBEHP  aEdward Behr926585  aProhibition:bThe thirteen years that changed America  aLondonbPenguin Booksc1967  a256 p.bPBc20x13 cm.  2Social Work  a"A excellent and honest book that does not flinch at unpalatable facts."—The New York Times Book Review
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.  aLiquor Laws926586  aDrinking of Alcoholic Beverages926587  aTemperance926588  aUnited States926589  aBEHR (Edward)926590  2ddccGF  c222101d222101  00102ddc40708SWaALbALd2013-03-24l0o363.41 BEHPpGF03366r2022-03-30 00:00:00w2022-03-30yGF