TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kobler,John
TI  - Ardent spirits: the rise and fall of prohibition 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - New York
PB  - G. P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - Prohibition
KW  - United States
N1  - With hard- and supercover; Includes index and bibliographical references; Cont.: Elegy for Hell's best friend -- 1. Temperance 1609-1860. The true instaurator -- A sin that excludes from heaven -- Of Washingtonians, cold water soldiers, rechabites and others -- Strange bedfellows -- 2. The Party, the Union, the League 1869-1919. James Black for president -- They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry -- Organized mother love -- Ethics be hanged -- The barrage -- 3. The noble experiment 1920-1934. This law will be obeyed -- Our little band of martyrs -- The poison cup -- The instant millionaires -- Nabobs and Bacchantes -- Epilogue 1973
ER  -