Baptists & Bootleggers
A Prohibition Expedition Through the South with Cocktail Recipes
Charleston, South Carolina : Evening Post Books, ; 2022
Format: Book
Description: vii, 224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits 24 cm
Pull up a barstool and get better acquainted with Carry Nation, Al Capone, George Remus, F. Scott Fitzgerald and a host of other historical personalities as you learn of the South’s unique role in the years 1920-1933 when alcohol was banned by the federal government. This book takes you to major cities and small towns, all of which struggled between the Baptists and their teetotaling allies who preached temperance and the bootleggers who got rich providing what their customers couldn’t buy legally. -- Barnes & Noble
Contents:
A brief history -- Shoot-out in Knoxville -- In search of carry nation -- The South Carolina dispensary -- Florida's dry-wet war -- Meanwhile, in Washington -- For medicinal purposes only -- Rumrunners -- Making moonshine -- Al Capone slept here -- Repeal.
ISBN:
9781929647583
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HISTORY North Am. US Smi | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |