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Author Lerner, Michael A.

Title Dry Manhattan : prohibition in New York City / Michael A. Lerner.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Edition 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (351 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published: 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-341) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary In this evocative history, Lerner reveals Prohibition to be the defining issue of the era, the first major 'culture war' of the 20th century, and a harbinger of the social and moral debates that divide America even today.
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Subject Prohibition -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Prohibition.
New York (State) -- New York.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
National Book Committee.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lerner, Michael A. Dry Manhattan. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008 9780674030572 0674030575 (OCoLC)225874285
ISBN 9780674040090 (electronic book)
0674040090 (electronic book)
0674030575
9780674030572
067402432X
9780674024328
9780674030572