a social history, comprehensive, detailed, documented, and well written.' Arthur Weinberg, Chicago Tribune'Here is a work of real social history, at once scholarly and entertaining, thoughtful, penetrating and analytical.' John A.
The prohibition of liquor in the United States from 1920 to 1933 created the myth of the flapper and gangster. This title presents an account of Andrew Sinclair's, that show how this extraordinary experiment was the product of the age-old conflict of country against city, of the God-fearing farmer against the corrupt urban rich.