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Dry Manhattan : Prohibition in New York City /
In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Dry Crusade
- 2. A New Era?
- 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task
- 4. The Brewers of Bigotry
- 5. The Itch to Try New Things
- 6. Vote as You Drink
- 7. I Represent the Women of America!
- 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem
- 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation
- 10. The End of the Party
- 11. A Surging Wet Tide
- 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal
- Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index