Asbury, Herbert 1891-1963

The great illusion : an informal history of prohibition / by Herbert Asbury. - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1950. - viii, 344 p. ; 21 cm. - 343.57:351.761.1](73) .

With hardcover

Includes index

"The good creature of God" -- Genesis -- "Interpose thine arm" -- "Whirlwind of the Lord" -- "Born of God" -- "The devil's hindquarters on earth" -- "Burying Congress like an avalanche" -- "A new nation will be born" -- "An era of clear thinking and clean living" -- A new moral tone for Broadway -- Where the booze came from -- Smugglers afloat and ashore -- What America drank -- Prohibition's fairest flower -- The end of the noble experiment.


Alcoholism--United States
Prohibition--United States

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