Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780786479610
Subjects: Prohibition; Distilling, illicit; Liquor industry and trade, united states; Liquor laws; Crime, united states; Outlaws; United states, social conditions
Description: "Bootleggers and Beer Barons is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Volstead Era (1920 to 1933) of prohibition. Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, the author offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime"--