Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition

by Gioia Diliberto

Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments.

In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226819671
• ISBN13: 9780226819679
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.