{"product_id":"dry-manhattan-prohibition-in-new-york-city","title":"Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael A Lerner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780674030572\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e360\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol around the country. This \"noble experiment,\" as President Hoover called it, was intended to usher in a healthier, more moral, and more efficient society. Nowhere was such reform needed more, proponents argued, than in New York City--and nowhere did Prohibition fail more spectacularly. \u003ci\u003eDry Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major work on Prohibition in nearly a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough New Yorkers were cautiously optimistic at first, Prohibition quickly degenerated into a deeply felt clash of cultures that utterly transformed life in the city. Impossible to enforce, the ban created vibrant new markets for illegal alcohol, spawned corruption and crime, fostered an exhilarating culture of speakeasies and nightclubs, and exposed the nation's deep prejudices. Writ large, the conflict over Prohibition, Michael Lerner demonstrates, was about much more than the freedom to drink. It was a battle between competing visions of the United States, pitting wets against drys, immigrants against old stock Americans, Catholics and Jews against Protestants, and proponents of personal liberty against advocates of societal reform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his evocative history, Lerner reveals Prohibition to be the defining issue of the era, the first major \"culture war\" of the twentieth century, and a harbinger of the social and moral debates that divide America even today.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City | Michael A Lerner | Paperback | 9780674030572 | Used: Very Good | American History 1755352","offer_id":49201163370648,"sku":"1755352","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61jnNzeWjKL.jpg?v=1780780454","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dry-manhattan-prohibition-in-new-york-city","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}