Ardent spirits
Subtitle: the rise and fall of prohibition.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780399112096
Subjects: Prohibition Party (U.S.); Prohibition -- United States -- History; Temperance -- History
Notes: 61093

Bibliography: p. [358]-[373]
Table of contents: title: Elegy for Hell's best friend; title: 1. Temperance 1609-1860.; title: The true instaurator; title: A sin that excludes from heaven; title: Of Washingtonians, cold water soldiers, rechabites and others; title: Strange bedfellows; title: 2. The Party, the Union, the League 1869-1919.; title: James Black for president; title: They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry; title: Organized mother love; title: Ethics be hanged; title: The barrage; title: 3. The noble experiment 1920-1934.; title: This law will be obeyed; title: Our little band of martyrs; title: The poison cup; title: The instant millionaires; title: Nabobs and Bacchantes; title: Epilogue 1973