Bootleggers, Booze, and Busts: Prohibition in Kern County, 1919-1933

by Richard J. Roux II

With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act a bridge of enforcement was developed transmitting National policy into local action-enforcement of Prohibition became the responsibility of Federal, County, and local police agencies. In towns, counties and states across the country individuals ignored these laws in the pursuit of profits, because of cultural imperatives, or out of the sheer desire to secure their liberty. Law enforcement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615942024
• ISBN13: 9780615942025
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Greenhorn Mountain Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"