Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America

When the Constitution declared on January 16, 1920, that Americans could no longer buy or sell alcoholic drink, it sparked the wildest, booziest years in our history. Everyone — from lowly criminals to upstanding citizens — saw in Prohibition an unparalleled license to get rich. Here is the full story of those thirteen years of temperance, telling how and why it all happened. It takes us back to the "beautiful and the damned", who drank their lives away in speakeasies; to the St. Valentine's Day massacre and the bootleggers and gangsters; to the head of a Kansas City sewing circle who single-handedly axed a saloon to splinters; to teetotaler Henry Ford's Detroit, where workers' homes were searched to make sure they were dry.

• Author
• Edward Samuel Behr

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 272

• Publisher
• Arcade Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781559703949

• Genres
• history, research, historical, crime

• Release date
• 2007