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Author Lerner, Michael A.

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

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.4109741 L562d 2007    ---  Available
Description 351 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Subject Prohibition -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 067402432X
9780674024328
Standard No. YDXCP 2493953
NLGGC 302418717
AU@ 000041019697
NZ1 11087185

 
    
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