On This Spot
Title | On This Spot PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas E. Evelyn |
Publisher | Capital Books |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781933102702 |
A celebration of Washington, DC, its history, people, and neighborhoods -- through fascinating archival photos and lively accounts
Rumrunners
Title | Rumrunners PDF eBook |
Author | J. Anne Funderburg |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476626707 |
In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered by aircraft engines. They out-maneuvered the U.S. Coast Guard and risked their lives to deliver illicit liquor. Smugglers like Bill McCoy, the Bahama Queen, and the Gulf Stream Pirate, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Drawing on legal records, newspaper articles and Coast Guard files, this history describes how rumrunners battled the Dry Navy and corrupted U.S. law enforcement, in order to keep America wet.
Prologue
Title | Prologue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Archives |
ISBN |
Rum Row
Title | Rum Row PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Carse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Prohibition |
ISBN | 9780975869949 |
Originally published: New York: Rinehart, 1959.
Time
Title | Time PDF eBook |
Author | Briton Hadden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 948 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Current events |
ISBN |
Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
Official Organ of the Independent Order of Good Templars, State of New York
Title | Official Organ of the Independent Order of Good Templars, State of New York PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Temperance |
ISBN |
Mortar and Murder
Title | Mortar and Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Jennie Bentley |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101476788 |
A designer and a handsome handyman hammer out the details of a cold case, in this must-read for lovers of HGTV’s home renovation shows. Avery Baker was once a New York textile designer, but inheriting her aunt's old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path-home renovation. Finding a property's hidden potential has rewards and challenges-especially when a mystery surfaces from behind the walls of a centuries-old house on an island that has more than its share of deadly secrets.