Dry Manhattan : : Prohibition in New York City / / Michael A. LERNER.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: LERNER, Michael A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Dry Crusade --; 2. A New Era? --; 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task --; 4. The Brewers of Bigotry --; 5. The Itch to Try New Things --; 6. Vote as You Drink --; 7. I Represent the Women of America! --; 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem --; 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation --; 10. The End of the Party --; 11. A Surging Wet Tide --; 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal --; Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674040090; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040090
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael A. LERNER.

In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.