"This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative."--SmithsonianArdent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers-all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicomic sagas in American history.
| ISBN | 9780306805127 |
| Autor(a) | Kobler, John |
| Editora | Da Capo Press |
| Ano de edição | 1993 |
| Páginas | 386 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |