Repealing National Prohibition
- ISBN-10
- 0873386728
- ISBN-13
- 9780873386722
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Authors
- David E. Kyvig, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Description
A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.
Get the book
Similar books
-
American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition
By Kenneth D. RoseN. A. Lindsey and Co., 1934), 22. 7. Ibid., 19–20, 51. 8. Ibid., 38. 9. James et al., Notable American Women, 1607–1950, vol. 3, s.v. “Peabody, Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury.” Io. “Evangeline Booth Dies at Age of 84” (obituary), ...
-
Law, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition
By David E. KyvigLaw, Alcohol, and Order: Perspectives on National Prohibition
-
Women and Repeal: The Story of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
By Grace Cogswell Root, Charles H. SabinWomen and Repeal: The Story of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
-
Amendments XVIII and XXI: Prohibition and Repeal
By Sylvia EngdahlThis volume presents the legal concepts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments in an engagingly simplified, easily understandable way, while reflecting provisions in both the national and state curriculum standards.
-
The Gospel of Barbecue: Poems
By Honoree Fanonne JeffersThe title poem of this collection tells of the creation of barbecue, how slaves cooked their masters' scraps into a survival food that became a cuisine.
-
Prohibition
By Sylvia EngdahlThis book also includes personal narratives from those who experienced prohibition firsthand, including a man's recollection of going to speakeasies as a teen; another's recounting of his career as a bootlegger; and a prohibition agent's ...
-
A Look at the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments: The Prohibition and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
By Amy GrahamShowcases the major amendments to the Constitution since its ratification in 1792, summarizing how the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created and discussing how each amendment affects our lives today.
-
The Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments: Alcohol, Prohibition, and Repeal
By Eileen LucasThis book looks at the people behind the passage of both the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment established a period of prohibition, no...