Prohibition, the Era of Excess/by Andrew Sinclair; With a Pref. by Richard Hofstadter
Title | Prohibition, the Era of Excess/by Andrew Sinclair; With a Pref. by Richard Hofstadter PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
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Pages | 480 |
Release | 1962 |
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Prohibition
Title | Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
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Pages | 508 |
Release | 1962 |
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Prohibition, the Era of Excess
Title | Prohibition, the Era of Excess PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
Publisher | Boston : Little, Brown |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Prohibition |
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The prohibition of liquor in the United States from 1920 to 1933 created the myth of the flapper and gangster. Andrew Sinclair's account was the first comprehensive study and it shows how this extraordinary experiment was the product of the age-old conflict of country against city, of the God-fearing farmer against the corrupt urban rich and the new immigrants with their imported religions and beer. Prohibition represented the last attempt of rural America to stem the tide of history that was transforming the country from an agricultural to an industrial nations. It stood for tradition and the old American way of life. Its defeat was tragedy as well as a comedy. The lessons of such an attempt at social control are relevant to all societies, old and new. -- amazon.com
Prohibition
Title | Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
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ISBN | 9781258234515 |
Era of Excess; a Social History of the Prohibition Movement. With a Pref. by Richard Hofstadter
Title | Era of Excess; a Social History of the Prohibition Movement. With a Pref. by Richard Hofstadter PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
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Pages | 480 |
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Genre | United States |
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Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition
Title | Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Landolfi |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2022-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000623483 |
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.
Prohibition
Title | Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sinclair |
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Pages | |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Prohibition |
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