TY  - BOOK
AU  - LERNER,Michael A.
TI  - Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City 
SN  - 9780674030572
AV  - HV5090.N7 L47 2008eb
U1  - 363.4109747109042 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Prohibition
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Dry Crusade --; 2. A New Era? --; 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task --; 4. The Brewers of Bigotry --; 5. The Itch to Try New Things --; 6. Vote as You Drink --; 7. I Represent the Women of America! --; 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem --; 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation --; 10. The End of the Party --; 11. A Surging Wet Tide --; 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal --; Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink
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