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• Hang the Moon

  a Novel

  Walls, Jeannette,

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• The Last Note of Warning

  Schellman, Katharine,

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  "By day, (Vivian Kelly) is a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Twelve Miles

  a Novel

  Robuck, Erika,

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  During the Prohibition Rum Wars, which created a booming smuggling economy, two women masterminds--Elizebeth Friedman, the inventor of cryptanalysis working for the government, and Marie Waite, on the rise to rumrunner royalty to save her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Prohibition Era

  America's War on Alcohol

  Viola, Jason

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  This graphic nonfiction book explores the rise and fall of Prohibition in the United States, highlighting how the 18th Amendment, intended to curb alcoholism and improve society, instead led to underground crime, bootlegging, corrupt law…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Roaring Twenties

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  The Blu-ray of The Roaring Twenties (1939) features a beautifully restored transfer that enhances the film’s shadowy noir visuals and period detail. This edition preserves Raoul Walsh’s gritty Prohibition-era crime drama with crisp clarity and rich…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smashing the Liquor Machine

  a Global History of Prohibition

  Schrad, Mark Lawrence,

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  Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad's pathbreaking history of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crooked

  the Roaring Twenties Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

  Masters, Nathan,

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  In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning glory.

• Blind Tiger

  Brown, Sandra, 1948-

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  "Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--

• The Stills

  a Kinship Novel

  Montgomery, Jess,

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  Investigating a teen's near death from a tainted batch of moonshine, Sheriff Lily Ross and expert distiller Marvena Whitcomb confront a nemesis bootlegger and Lily's prohibitionist brother-in-law to protect the citizens of their 1927 Ohio community.

• Liberated Spirits

  Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition

  Ambrose, Hugh,

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  Liberated Spirits describes how the fight both to pass and later to repeal Prohibition was driven by women, as exemplified by two remarkable women in particular.

• The Ghosts of Eden Park

  the Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz- Age America

  Kahler, Abbott, 1973-

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  The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation

• A Mind of Her Own

  a Novel

  Steel, Danielle,

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  Amid the aftermath of World War I and the Spanish flu, Alexandra Bouvier rebuilds her life in America, pursuing journalism with fierce independence. In 1920s Chicago, she navigates love and danger as Prohibition-era violence unfolds around her.

• Prohibition Gangsters

  the Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation

  Mappen, Marc

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  Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era--men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905--who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment.

• Jews and Booze : Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

  Davis, Marni

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  Traces American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition

• The Great Gatsby

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

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  Newly rich Jay Gatsby tries to recapture the past and win back Daisy Buchanan, his former love, despite the fact she has married.

• The Wicked Widow

  a Wicked City Novel

  Williams, Beatriz,

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  While digging up dirt on a Presidential candidate at the behest of her 90-something society queen aunt, pregnant Ella Dommerich, with the help of her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, stands between a ruthless family and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scarface and the Untouchable

  Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

  Collins, Max Allan,

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  A riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization.