Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era

"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"—

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adult
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long · 432 pages

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