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Published by Scribner, 2011
ISBN 10: 074327704XISBN 13: 9780743277044
Seller: Dream Books Co., Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Scribner, 2010
ISBN 10: 0743277023ISBN 13: 9780743277020
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, 2010
ISBN 10: 0743599217ISBN 13: 9780743599214
Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Scribner, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 074327704XISBN 13: 9780743277044
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Card covers show light shelf wear, shallow crease full length of front cover. ; A bright, solid book. Illustrated with B&W plates ; Trade PB; 5.5 X 1.26 X 8.4375 inches; 468 pages; "A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.".
Published by Scribner Book Company, 2011
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: new. A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of Americas most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of Americas favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrents dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the womens suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax.Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible-if long-forgotten-federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrents account of Joseph P. Kennedys legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.)Its a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrents narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing sacramental wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology.Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrents rank as a major American writer.
Published by Scribner, New York, 2010
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardcover in DJ with price, first edition as stated with complete publisher print line, 468 pages with photo illustrations, no handwriting or remainder mark, featured in the Ken Burns PBS documentary.
Published by Scribner, 2010
ISBN 10: 0972020519ISBN 13: 9780972020510
Seller: Lexington Books Inc, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Scribner 2010, 2010
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. New York, Scribner, 2010. 8vo. IX,+ (blank),+ 468,+ (1) pp.+ plates. Publ. board with dustwrapper. Hardcover / Hardback.