Bootleggers and beer barons of the Prohibition era /
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Volstead Law : King Alcohol dethroned
- Satan's best friend, God's worst enemy
- Volstead 101 : Prohibition basics
- Body and soul : hospital whiskey and sacramental wine
- Part II. The traffickers : when liquor is outlawed, outlaws will have liquor
- Everybody's doing it : breaking the law for fun and profit
- Hooch haulers : roaring thru the twenties
- Jumping the line : the Canadian connection
- Satan's seat : defying volstead in New York City
- Speakeasy heaven : nightlife in the Big Apple
- New York's big three : the best of the worst
- Feeling the heat : Owney Madden
- Arthur Flegenheimer : the Bronx beer baron
- Payback : the tax collector versus the peculator
- Famous last words : bet on Mom
- Mr. Smooth : Waxy Gordon
- New Jersey's Triple X : Max, Maxie, and Waxy
- Smedley and Boo Boo : Prohibition in Philadelphia
- Washington, D.C. : the Capitol Hill bootlegger and the amphibians
- Country cousins : dew boys and alky cookers
- Motor on : "high"-octane fuel for Detroit
- Detroit's downriver rumrunners
- Mob mayhem in the Wicked City
- Valentine's Day, "Chicago"-style
- Uncle Sam versus Scarface
- "Whiskey"-six cowboys : the Boozorium Trail and beyond
- Seattle's bootleg king and LSD's Johnny Appleseed
- Dutiful wives and desperate mothers
- Winging it : flying bootleggers
- Part III. Choice versus Prohibition : the cycle of history
- Preserving God's bounty
- Whiskey and rum : America's new favorites
- The dry women versus the wet workingmen
- Corruption : gangsters and graft
- The enforcement follies
- Open the spigots, drown the bigots : the end of the Prohibition error
- Glossary: Volstead vocabulary.