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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Publisher Comments A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (Norton Essays in American History) by Norman H Clark Publisher Comments It shows the profound impact of the prohibition movement on political history before 1916 and analyzes its ambiguous triumph in the 1920s. In doing so, it reveals the relationship between liquor control and the unique moral history of the American family.... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 (Studies in Legal History) by Richard F Hamm Publisher Comments Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr Synopsis When the Constitution declared on January 16, 1920, that Americans could no longer buy or sell alcoholic drink, it sparked the wildest, booziest years in our nation's history. Everyone saw in Prohibition an unparalleled license to get rich. Here is the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Staff Pick Can you picture the Roaring Twenties without the presence of champagne bubbles to tickle the senses? Well, legally speaking, we didn't drink a drop, thanks to the newly created 18th amendment. Not that it stopped us. Drinking became the great equalizer... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Carry A. Nation by Fran Grace Publisher Comments Carry A. NationRetelling the Life Fran Grace The story of one of America's most notorious and misunderstood women. Carry Nation was 54 when she "smashed" her first saloon, but her life before she started her infamous hatchet crusade has been little known... (read more) List Price $17.55 Your price: $15.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Contributions in American History #179: Keepers of the Spirits: The Judicial Response to Prohibition Enforcement in Florida, 1885-1935 by John J. Guthrie Publisher Comments Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida... (read more) List Price $139.25 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life (Religion in North America) by Fran Grace Publisher Comments Carry A. NationRetelling the Life Fran Grace The story of one of America's most notorious and misunderstood women. Carry Nation was 54 when she smashed her first saloon, but her life before she started her infamous hatchet crusade has been little known... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement by Joseph R Gusfield Description "Bibliography to epilogue": p. [211]-214. Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rum Running Years by Ted R Hennigar Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reminiscences of Neal Dow Recollections of Eighty Years by Neal Dow Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cyclopaedia of Temperance & Prohibition a Reference of Facts Statistics & General Information on All Phases of the Drink Question the Temperance Movement & the Prohibition Agitation by Walter W Spooner Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Era of Excess a Social History of the Prohibition Movement by Andrew Sinclair Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vessel of Wrath by Robert Lewis Taylor Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Clarence Darrows Unlikely Friend Wilson by Mcneil Robert Dean E Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Valiant for truth :Clarence True Wilson and prohibition by Robert Mcneil Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Case of Whiskey by George Coes Howell Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Prohibition in America: The Lie of the Land by Sean Dennis Cashman Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ardent Spirits the Rise & Fall of Prohib by John Kobler Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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On & Off the Wagon a Sober Analysis of T by Donald B Chidsey Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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