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: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074327704X
• ISBN13: 9780743277044
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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.