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Rumrunners : liquor smugglers on America's coasts, 1920-1933 /
"In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Smugglers, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933. This history describes how rumrunners battled both...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rum row: mother ships and mosquito boats
- Island oases: St. Pierre and the Bahamas
- The Coast Guard: a new mission
- Cut to the chase: speed plus agility
- Coast Guards: the good, the bad and the drunk
- Volstead enforcement: tragedy and controversy
- Bill McCoy: rumrunning pioneer
- Gertrude Lythgoe: the "Bahama Queen"
- Edith Stevens: love and "reckless courage"
- Long Island: the rumrunners next door
- "Big Bill" Dwyer: the czar of rum row
- The radio rum ring
- Pirates, hijackers and go-thru guys
- Right off the boat: rumrunning in Florida
- The "Gulf Stream Pirate": two different men
- The West Coast connection: Canada to California
- Malahat: the "Phantom of the Pacific"
- Golden Gate rumrunners: the tailor and the Mayor
- Repealing Prohibition: the end of the great drought.