Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt...
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Author: John Simonson
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice by Simonson, John

Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

$72.45

Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

$72.45
Author: John Simonson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.

Author: John Simonson
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 03/05/2018
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781540228550

About the Author
Simonson, John: - John Simonson is the author of two other books published by The History Press: Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways (2010) and Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year (2013). He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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