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Funderburg, J. Anne, 1946-
Subjects
Prohibition -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Distilling, Illicit -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Liquor industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Liquor laws -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Outlaws -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
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Bootleggers and beer...
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Bootleggers and beer barons of the
Prohibition
era / J. Anne Funderburg.
by
Funderburg, J. Anne, 1946-
Subjects
Prohibition
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Distilling, Illicit
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Liquor industry
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Liquor laws
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Crime
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Outlaws
--
United
States
--
Biography.
United
States
--
Social conditions
--
1918-1932.
Biography.
History
.
Publisher Info:
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Description:
viii, 421 pages ; 26 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780786479610
0786479612
9781476616193
Contents:
Part I. The Volstead Law : King Alcohol dethroned
--
Satan's best friend, God's worst enemy
--
Volstead 101 :
Prohibition
basics
--
Body and soul : hospital whiskey and sacramental wine
--
Part II. The traffickers : when liquor is outlawed, outlaws will have liquor
--
Everybody's doing it : breaking the law for fun and profit
--
Hooch haulers : roaring thru the twenties
--
Jumping the line : the Canadian connection
--
Satan's seat : defying volstead in New York City
--
Speakeasy heaven : nightlife in the Big Apple
--
New York's big three : the best of the worst
--
Feeling the heat : Owney Madden
--
Arthur Flegenheimer : the Bronx beer baron
--
Payback : the tax collector versus the peculator
--
Famous last words : bet on Mom
--
Mr. Smooth : Waxy Gordon
--
New Jersey's Triple X : Max, Maxie, and Waxy
--
Smedley and Boo Boo :
Prohibition
in Philadelphia
--
Washington, D.C. : the Capitol Hill bootlegger and the amphibians
--
Country cousins : dew boys and alky cookers
--
Motor on : "high"-octane fuel for Detroit
--
Detroit's downriver rumrunners
--
Mob mayhem in the Wicked City
--
Valentine's Day, "Chicago"-style
--
Uncle Sam versus Scarface
--
"Whiskey"-six cowboys : the Boozorium Trail and beyond
--
Seattle's bootleg king and LSD's Johnny Appleseed
--
Dutiful wives and desperate mothers
--
Winging it : flying bootleggers
--
Part III. Choice versus
Prohibition
: the cycle of
history
--
Preserving God's bounty
--
Whiskey and rum : America's new favorites
--
The dry women versus the wet workingmen
--
Corruption : gangsters and graft
--
The enforcement follies
--
Open the spigots, drown the bigots : the end of the
Prohibition
error
--
Glossary: Volstead vocabulary.
Format Book:
Summary:
"Bootleggers and Beer Barons is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Volstead Era (1920 to 1933) of
prohibition
. Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, the author offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime. Readers will find the Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating"
--
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