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100			_aEdward Behr _926585
245			_aProhibition: _bThe thirteen years that changed America
260			_aLondon _bPenguin Books _c1967
300			_a256 p. _bPB _c20x13 cm.
365			_2Social Work
520			_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.
650			_aLiquor Laws _926586
650			_aDrinking of Alcoholic Beverages _926587
650			_aTemperance _926588
650			_aUnited States _926589
700			_aBEHR (Edward) _926590
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