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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition

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By Karen Blumenthal
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
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It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid offwhen a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, whenchildren smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.

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28485 words28,485 words
160 pages160 pages
Lexile 1250LLexile 1250L
Grade 7 to 10Grade 7 to 10
Published 2011Published 2011

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9781596434493

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