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Blood harvest
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Brant Randall |
"What drives a small town in 1929 New England to lynch a man? When immigrant Nick DeCosta elopes with the wild youngest daughter of the MacKay clan, the county's leading moonshiners, the stage is set… |
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The decade that roared
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Linda Jacobs Altman |
Discusses the social conditions of the decade during which prohibition was in effect, the results of the legislation, and its failure to preserve traditional values. |
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The War on Alcohol
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Lisa McGirr |
From the Preface...
THIS book tells a more consequential story--one closely attuned to the ways in which social class, ethnicity, race, gender, and religiosity powerfully shaped not just the passa… |
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The Bootlegger
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Clive Cussler,Justin Scott |
"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running… |
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The war on alcohol
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Lisa McGirr |
"Prohibition has long been portrayed as a 'noble experiment' that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to… |
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Lawless
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Matt Bondurant |
Running moonshine liquor during the prohibition years, a notorious trio of brothers continues their illicit business after Prohibition and plays a central role in a violent conspiracy trial, a story … |
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A criminal magic
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Lee Kelly |
"Washington, DC, 1926. While sorcery opponents have succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment, the Prohibition of magic has only invigorated the city's underworld. Smuggling rings funnel magic contraba… |
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Sonoma rose
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Jennifer Chiaverini |
With the nation in the throes of Prohibition, Rosa Diaz Barclay unwittingly discovers that her husband, John, has given over the duties of their Southern California rye farm in favor of armed bootleg… |
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Le livre du cannabis
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Hugo Verlomme,Tigrane Hadengue,Michka. |
Rassemble une anthologie de textes sur la drogue récréative et interdite. Six parties délimitent des époques précises, de la dernière décennie aux origines sacrées dans l'Antiquité. |
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The wettest county in the world
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Matt Bondurant |
518 p. (large print) ; 23 cm |
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More interesting people
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Robert J. Casey |
Robert J. Casey was a well-known Chicago newspaperman from 1920 through 1947. He eventually became a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.
This volume continues his memoir of the news… |
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