One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years

By Clifford James Walker

Book Overview

After 22 years of interviewing old timers and researching newspapers, archives and document, I have finished this book on Califorrnia bootlegging, rumrunning and moonshining. The years covered are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967314119
• ISBN13: 9780967314112
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Back Door Publishing
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Should be.... Where the wild ones were!

Got this book as a gift from mom and dad. Walker was a teacher of mine in High School and college. Started reading it just in kind of a way to say thanks for all he taught and found the old professor instructing me yet again. Cliff Walker has a way of making you interested in whatever he's interested in and getting you revved up to go off in your own direction and provide light on a new subject. Since getting it I havn't been able to put it down. The people who are such a part of our history cease to be mythic gods and have put real faces and life into it. Understand this! It is not so much a history book as it great tales about a past we knew was there but scarcely considered. Walker has made the past come alive in a way that few history books ever have...Thanks again Cliff.

A Great Book

"One Eye Closed the other Red" is the most interesting, humorous , and comprehensive treatment of the Prohibition era that was such an important social storm in our countrys not too distant past. In his book Walker lets us understand and enjoy the "Bootlegging" years that many of us were born in. This is a rich, fun filled account as well as an important book that everyone should have in their library. Cliff Walker has written this as a labor of love and I appreciate the many years of labor he put into it. Thanks Cliff.