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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762700 Title: Ardent spirits; the rise and fall of prohibition. Author: John Kobler Publisher: New York, Putnam [1973] ISBN/ISSN: 039911209X 9780399112096 OCLC:762700

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Ardent spirits; the rise and fall of prohibition.

Author:	John Kobler
Publisher:	New York, Putnam [1973]
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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].
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Subjects	Prohibition Party (U.S.) Prohibition -- United States -- History. Temperance -- History. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	John Kobler Find more information about:
ISBN:	039911209X 9780399112096
OCLC Number:	762700
Description:	386 pages illustrations 22 cm
Contents:	Elegy for Hell's best friend -- 1. Temperance 1609-1860. The true instaurator -- A sin that excludes from heaven -- Of Washingtonians, cold water soldiers, rechabites and others -- Strange bedfellows -- 2. The Party, the Union, the League 1869-1919. James Black for president -- They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry -- Organized mother love -- Ethics be hanged -- The barrage -- 3. The noble experiment 1920-1934. This law will be obeyed -- Our little band of martyrs -- The poison cup -- The instant millionaires -- Nabobs and Bacchantes -- Epilogue 1973.

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"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].

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