Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

by Daniel Okrent

Book Overview

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes:... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743277023
• ISBN13: 9780743277020
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A nice gift

Got this for my aunt whose interested in the subject, I was surprised by how thick it was. I read the first chapter and skimmed through it a bit and was pretty impressed.

A Well Written Account

I liked this book. It is easy to read and the tale it tells is fascinating. I bought it because my grandmother was involved in the Prohibition Movement. She thought (was sure?) that we would become a better country once alcohol was gone. I thought the best part of the book is when it showed the link between the two big efforts at the time --- getting the vote for women and to remove alcohol. I was glad that not all of the suffragettes were dry (I disagreed with my early training and drank when I became an adult -- and even earlier LOL) but I thought that some were is an interesting part of the feminist story. I really recommend this book.