Seventeen-year-old socialite Gloria secretly longs to be a flapper, but now that she is engaged to Sebastian, she must leave her partying days behind, until her future is threatened by an alluring jazz musician who encourages Gloria to risk everything.
This book explores the history of Prohibition (1920-1933), from the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Twenty-First Amendment that would repeal the Eighteenth Amendment.
This book describes the Prohibition Era (1920-1933), a period when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbade Americans from manufacturing, selling, or transporting alcoholic beverages.
Contains a selection of contemporary narratives and reminiscences that provide varying perspectives on the issue of prohibition in the United States, each with a short introduction.
As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom learns about hard work and honesty.
For many Americans, the era known as the Roaring Twenties was a 10-year-long party, as Americans discovered jazz, flappers, flagpole sitting and talking movies. But it was also an era of lawlessness as crime bosses fulfilled the countrys thirst for alcoholic beverages that had been made illegal by the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Presents a history of prohibition in the United States, discussing the events leading up to it, the measures that police took to enforce it and how it became legal to manufacture alcohol again.
An overview of Prohibition that discusses the debate over the ban of alcohol, home brewing, police corruption, its repeal, and other related topics, and includes photographs, a time line, and a list of additional resources.
