Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

by Philip P. Mason

Book Overview

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse than in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814325831
• ISBN13: 9780814325834
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 11.3"