Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition (Hardcover) by Karen Blumenthal

from derbyn

4Q, 4P This book was a good combination of key facts and figures about prohibition - statistics, dates, important names and laws - and anecdotes about key people on both side of the wet and dry debate. There were certainly some larger-than-life characters, which appealed to me and I thought would...

from laurenryates

This is a book about the years right before, during, and after prohibition. The book tells some first-hand accounts about how some politicians wanted prohibition to clean up the country and how woman and children campaigned for the temperance movement to set it in motion. It uses period photograp...

from RosanaSantana

This describes prohibition, and the years leading up to it.

from lilibrarian

Detailed and well-researched information about the people, places and activities of the prohibition era in the United States

from Jennanana

Non-fiction account of alcoholism and libations in the U.S., how prohibition got its start and all of the organized crime that sprung up from it. Lots of neat insights that you don't learn about in history class, and interesting photos, propaganda, and drawings from that period.