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Prohibition
Title:
Prohibition
Author:
Hill, Jeff, 1962-
Publication Information:
Detroit : Omnigraphics, [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Events leading up to prohibition -- Outlawing alcohol -- The supply -- The thirst -- The enforcers -- The mob -- Opposition and reform -- Amending the amendment -- Legacy of prohibition -- Bishop James Cannon, Jr. -- Al Capone -- Warren G. Harding -- Charles Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano -- William "Bill" McCoy -- Carrie Nation -- George Remus -- Alfred E. Smith -- Rev. Billy Sunday -- Wayne B. Wheeler -- Mabel Walker Willebrandt -- Rev. Purley A. Baker, Anti-Saloon League, calls for national prohibition -- The Eighteenth Amendment -- Charles Burns recalls running a speakeasy -- Bill McCoy remembers Rum Row -- Izzy Einstein on his adventures as a prohibition agent -- Walter Lippman discusses nullifying the Eighteenth Amendment -- Chicago daily tribune reports on the Valentine's Day Massacre -- The Twenty-first Amendment.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.5 8.0 88424.
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ISBN:
9780780807686
Format :
Book