Roaring Twenties: Prohibition

Discusses the temperance movement in American history, including important figures in the movement, the history of temperance, and the period of Prohibition in the United States.

Explores how Prohibition influenced American history, discussing how laws forbidding the manufacturing, distribution, and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s impacted American businesses and the government.

Presents a collection of entries that provide information on the 1920s in the U.S., including the political, economic, technological, and social events during the decade, and provides full and excerpted documents that offer a range of perspectives the period. Includes sidebar boxes and illustrations.

Examines the history of the United States from the Great War to the stock market crash of 1929 through biographical accounts of sixty Americans who had an influence on events of the period, each with portraits, photographs, and related primary documents.

Contains narrative essays and primary documents that provide information on political, social, military, moral, and cultural conflicts in American history from 1920 to 1945, and includes biographical profiles, a chronology, maps, and illustrations.

Presents twenty-one primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1920 and 1940, including the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mussolini's March on Rome, the stock market crash, and others.

Explores the development of the United States from 1917 to 1945, covering including the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II.

A chronicle of the 1920s, including the fads, triumphs, tragedies, and fashions of that decade.

Contains approximately 160 primary sources on American history and culture from 1920 to 1929, featuring many different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.

It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, whenchildren smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host of notorious gangsters entered the public eye. Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.