Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Lerner, Michael A.
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Lerner, Michael A.

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

In 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibition....
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Author: Michael A. Lerner
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Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Lerner, Michael A.

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

CHF 71.60
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Lerner, Michael A.

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

CHF 71.60
Author: Michael A. Lerner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol around the country. This noble experiment, as President Hoover called it, was intended to usher in a healthier, more moral, and more efficient society. Nowhere was such reform needed more, proponents argued, than in New York City--and nowhere did Prohibition fail more spectacularly. Dry Manhattan is the first major work on Prohibition in nearly a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city.

Though New Yorkers were cautiously optimistic at first, Prohibition quickly degenerated into a deeply felt clash of cultures that utterly transformed life in the city. Impossible to enforce, the ban created vibrant new markets for illegal alcohol, spawned corruption and crime, fostered an exhilarating culture of speakeasies and nightclubs, and exposed the nation's deep prejudices. Writ large, the conflict over Prohibition, Michael Lerner demonstrates, was about much more than the freedom to drink. It was a battle between competing visions of the United States, pitting wets against drys, immigrants against old stock Americans, Catholics and Jews against Protestants, and proponents of personal liberty against advocates of societal reform.

In his evocative history, Lerner reveals Prohibition to be the defining issue of the era, the first major culture war of the twentieth century, and a harbinger of the social and moral debates that divide America even today.

Author: Michael A. Lerner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 351
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.52w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780674024328


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2006 pg. 43
Library Journal 02/15/2007 pg. 132
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2007 pg. 317
New York Times 03/11/2007 pg. 9
New Yorker (The) 05/07/2007 pg. 81

About the Author
Lerner, Michael A.: - Michael A. Lerner is Associate Dean of Studies at Bard High School Early College in New York City.

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