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Author | : Garrett Peck |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2011-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614230897 |
Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on—a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation’s capital. Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC’s speakeasies—every week. The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. This rollicking history brims with stories of vice—topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Discover an underground city ruled not by organized crime but by amateur bootleggers, where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz. Includes photos!
Author | : Garrett Peck |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540205827 |
In 1929, it was estimated that every week bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits into Washington, D.C.'s three thousand speakeasies. H.L. Mencken called it the thirteen awful years, "? though it was sixteen for the District. Nevertheless, the bathtub gin, swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. Author Garrett Peck crafts a rollicking history brimming with stories of vice, topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Join Peck as he explores an underground city ruled not by organized crime but by amateur bootleggers, where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz."
Author | : Troy Hughes |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2023-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467153370 |
"Men are divided into three classes. There are men who love their liquor, men who sell liquor, and politicians who are on both sides of the question." Before Prohibition, a number of liquor merchants operated in the District of Columbia. This was a time when intoxicating beverages were at the forefront of the national conversation and the District, being subject only to laws passed by Congress, served as a testing ground for regulation. Learn the stories of the Poison Squad, Lemonade Lucy, the Sons of Temperance, and the sad tale of Senators baseball star Ed Delahanty. On the political front, read a blow-by-blow account of the decade long whiskey war, which involved every branch of the federal government as it sought to answer the question, "What is whiskey?" Local author and whiskey producer Troy Hughes provides a glimpse into Washington whiskey culture and the businesses of producers at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author | : Kirk Collection (Brown University) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Prohibition |
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Author | : Norman H. Clark |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295800011 |
On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The Dry Years, which might be subtitled �The Fall and Rise of John Barleycorn,� is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative exposition and wit. ...Clark is knowing and acid about alcohol as a class problem. he points out that the drys were usually led by upperclass types whose peers would derive benefit by better habits in the working class. He does not, however, fall into the trap of attributing the attitudes of the reformers to hypocrisy. The drys were awash with sincerity. ...It is one of the many merits of this delightful book that Norman Clark does not rub our noses in the fact that though times change, problems remain. In this substantially updated edition of the classic story of a region�s experience with Prohibition, Norman Clark reviews to the present the political history of liquor control in Washington State, and issue taken seriously in the state and the nation as those of black slavery, wage slavery, and child welfare. He traces the effect of social change upon liquor morality through nearly two hundred years of efforts to make the use of alcohol compatible with the American view of social progress.
Author | : Association Against the Prohibition Amendment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Prohibition |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1981-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309031494 |
Author | : Ernest Hurst Cherrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Alcoholism |
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Author | : Henry Sherman Boutell |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : William J. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1920 |
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