Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

(Part of the Great Lakes Books Series Series)

by Philip P. Mason

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A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse than in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814351042

ISBN13:9780814351048

Release Date:May 2024

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 7.1" x 9.6"

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20th Century Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History Human Geography Midwest Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Regional U.S. True Accounts True Crime

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