Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey. Prohibition in Memphis, Paperback - Patrick O'Daniel

Based on news reports and documents, O'Daniel's lively account distils long-forgotten gangsters, criminal organisations, and crusaders whose action...

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A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s. Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couple...

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This might be the most unjust prosecution in U.S. legal history. If you think what happened to Steven Avery in the true crime film, Making a Murder...

DescriptionAmericans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Prot...

After fleeing England and her ill-fated love for the Christian knight Ivanhoe, the Jewess Rebecca builds a new life as a physician in thirteenth-ce...

In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Sh...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

Amory Ames is excited to be bridesmaid at her friend's New York wedding. But when a guest is found dead, Amory and husband Milo are drawn into New ...

Reducere. The Jazz Age was a boom time in the Bluff City. Murder was rampant, and politics were rough-and-tumble. First, Mayor Rowlett Paine and Boss E.H. Cr...

Reducere. DescriptionProhibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways and even town hall...

Reducere. Stories abound about legendary New York City gangsters like "Lucky" Luciano, but Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters too. While...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. LernerIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibiti...

Publisher: Milo BooksAuthor(s): Steve SinclairNumber of pages: 237Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 187 x 114 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

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Reducere. Malfunction Junction is a collection of short stories written by eight local authors with Memphis and the Mid-South area as the theme. The stories ...

To the outside world Dick Lane and Mick Mason look like two average, law-abiding citizens. However, they lead an amazing double life - for when fie...

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Reducere. Some Bardstown, Kentucky residents argued for an alcohol ban as early as the mid-1800s despite the fact that whiskey and bourbon were local staples...

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The Sisters of Nazareth Convent transforms archaeological knowledge of Nazareth by publishing over 80 years of archaeological work at the Sisters o...

In 2003, the United States had about 60 craft distillers; today there are over 2, 000 in all corners of the country, 500 of which are making whiske...

Reducere. Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, q...

How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflicts Separatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bryan A. DavisEverything you need to know to ferment and distill whiskey right the first time. A fun read, salt and peppere...

Reducere. During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast b...

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Reducere. Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphro...

DescriptionProhibition in the United StatesFor thirteen years, from 1920 to 1933, the transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibite...

After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many c...

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Reducere. In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkab...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...