Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition /

Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
Edition:	1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Scribner, 2010.
Description:	viii, 468 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Prohibition -- United States. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Drinking of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition. United States -- History -- 20th century. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8053368

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ISBN:	9780743277020 (hbk.) : $30.00 9780743277044 (trade pbk.) 9781439171691 (ebk.) 0743277023 (hbk.) 074327704X (trade pbk.) 1439171696 (ebk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-453) and index.
Summary:	Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: January 16, 1920
Part I. The Struggle
1. Thunderous Drums and Protestant Nuns
2. The Rising of Liquid Bread
3. The Most Remarkable Movement
4. "Open Fire on the Enemy"
5. Triumphant Failure
6. Dry-Drys, Wet-Drys, and Hyphens
7. From Magna Carta to Volstead
Part II. The Flood
8. Starting Line
9. A Fabulous Sweepstakes
10. Leaks in the Dotted Line
11. The Great Whiskey Way
12. Blessed Be the Fruit of the Vine
13. The Alcohol That Got Away
14. The Way We Drank
Part III. The War of the Wet and the Dry
15. Open Wounds
16. "Escaped on Payment of Money"
17. Crime Pays
18. The Phony Referendum
Part IV. The Beginning of the End, The End, and After
19. Outrageous Excess
20. The Hummingbird That Went to Mars
21. Afterlives, and the Missing Man
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: The Constitution of the United States of America
Notes
Sources
Index