Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
Michael A. Lerner
360 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 067402432X
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Language: English
Publish: March 15, 2007
American HistoryBoozeCrimeFoodHistoricalHistoryNew YorkNonfictionPoliticsResearch
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.