Ardent spirits
Subtitle: the rise and fall of prohibition.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Prohibition Party (U.S.); Prohibition -- United States -- History; Temperance -- History
Description: "It is here at last -- dry America's first birthday," proclaimed the Anti-Saloon League of New York. The date was January 16, 1920, a Friday. "At one minute past twelve tomorrow morning a new nation will be born ... Tonight John Barleycorn makes his last will and testament. Now for an era of clear thinking and clean living! The Anti-Saloon League wishes every man, woman, and child a happy New Dry Year."--Page [11].
Notes: Bibliography: p. [358]-[373]