Prohibition
By: Dennis Nishi, book editor.
Contributors: Nishi, Dennis, 1967-
Series: History firsthand
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Prohibition -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The noble experiment; title: Ch. 1: The drys: the evils of alcohol / Billy Sunday; title: Give prohibition its chance / Ella A. Boole; title: Prohibition for the common good / Charles Stelzle; title: Alcoholism is obsolete in the Industrial Age / Ernest H. Cherrington; title: Liquor has always been in league with rebellion / Wayne B. Wheeler; title: Ch. 2: The wets: Prohibition is the Devil's deceit / Joseph F. Rutherford; title: The Puritanical fundations of the prohibition movement / Clarence Darrow; title: Prohibition is contrary to human nature / Percy Andreae; title: Prohibition is unenforceable / Fiorello H. LaGuardia; title: Ch. 3: The cops and the criminals: Prohibition Agent No. 1 / Izzy Einstein; title: The danger of unfit prohibition agents / Mabel Walker Willebrandt; title: The untouchables / Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley; title: A small-time crook / Rafer Dooley; title: Rumrunners / Anonymous; title: Ch. 4: The general public: If you don't like the law, break it / Corey Ford; title: The parlor / Charles Angoff; title: A poor substitute for the real thing / John Arthur Henricks; title: Women and drinking / Stanley Walker; title: No trouble finding alcohol / H.L. Mencken; title: Ch. 5: Repeal: A united cause / Grace C. Root; title: An unfair, unenforceable, and un-American law / Ira L. Reeves; title: A dry admits prohibition's failure / John D. Rockefeller Jr.; title: A vote for repeal / Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: Prohibition was a success / George B. Cutten.