Dry Manhattan Prohibition in New York City

Name: Dry Manhattan Prohibition in New York City
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ISBN: 9780674030572

ISBN-10: 0674030575

ISBN-13: 9780674030572

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael A. Lerner

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In 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol around the country. This "noble experiment," as President Hoover called it, was intended to usher in a healthier, more moral, and more efficient society. Nowhere was such reform needed more, proponents argued, than in New York City--and nowhere did Prohibition fail more spectacularly. Dry Manhattan is the first major work on Prohibition in nearly a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city. Though New Yorkers were cautiously optimistic…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Michael A. Lerner is Associate Dean of Studies at Bard High School Early College in New York City.



Introduction



The Dry Crusade



A New Era?



A Hopeless and Thankless Task



The Brewers of Bigotry



The Itch to Try New Things



Vote as You Drink



I Represent the Women of America!



Hootch Joints in Harlem



Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation



The End of the Party



A Surging Wet Tide



The Wet Convention and the New Deal


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index