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