num_pages: 360
description: In this evocative history, Lerner reveals Prohibition to be the defining issue of the era, the first major 'culture war' of the 20th century, and a harbinger of the social and moral debates that divide America even today.
language: English
title: Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
titlecomplete: Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
genres: New York, Historical, History, American History, Research, Food, Booze, Crime, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 201
publisher: Harvard University Press