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03681aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1B830DD8F70611E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 140228s2014 ncu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2014007937 020 $a 0786479612 020 $a 9780786479610 035 $a (OCoLC)866620320 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d YUS $d CDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV5089 $b .F88 2014 050 00 $a HV5089 $b .F88 2014 100 1 $a Funderburg, J. Anne, $d 1946- 245 10 $a Bootleggers and beer barons of the Prohibition era / $c J. Anne Funderburg. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2014] 300 $a viii, 421 pages ; $c 26 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-415) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. The Volstead Law : King Alcohol dethroned -- Satan's best friend, God's worst enemy -- Volstead 101 : Prohibition basics -- Body and soul : hospital whiskey and sacramental wine -- Part II. The traffickers : when liquor is outlawed, outlaws will have liquor -- Everybody's doing it : breaking the law for fun and profit -- Hooch haulers : roaring thru the twenties -- Jumping the line : the Canadian connection -- Satan's seat : defying volstead in New York City -- Speakeasy heaven : nightlife in the Big Apple -- New York's big three : the best of the worst -- Feeling the heat : Owney Madden -- Arthur Flegenheimer : the Bronx beer baron -- Payback : the tax collector versus the peculator -- Famous last words : bet on Mom -- Mr. Smooth : Waxy Gordon -- New Jersey's Triple X : Max, Maxie, and Waxy -- Smedley and Boo Boo : Prohibition in Philadelphia -- Washington, D.C. : the Capitol Hill bootlegger and the amphibians -- Country cousins : dew boys and alky cookers -- Motor on : "high"-octane fuel for Detroit -- Detroit's downriver rumrunners -- Mob mayhem in the Wicked City -- Valentine's Day, "Chicago"-style -- Uncle Sam versus Scarface -- "Whiskey"-six cowboys : the Boozorium Trail and beyond -- Seattle's bootleg king and LSD's Johnny Appleseed -- Dutiful wives and desperate mothers -- Winging it : flying bootleggers -- Part III. Choice versus Prohibition : the cycle of history -- Preserving God's bounty -- Whiskey and rum : America's new favorites -- The dry women versus the wet workingmen -- Corruption : gangsters and graft -- The enforcement follies -- Open the spigots, drown the bigots : the end of the Prohibition error -- Glossary: Volstead vocabulary. 520 2 $a "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. Readers will find the Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Prohibition $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Distilling, Illicit $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Liquor industry $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Liquor laws $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Crime $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Outlaws $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1918-1932. 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331012607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1B830DD8F70611E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search