Download or read book Last Call written by Daniel Okrent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. 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 cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.

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Download or read book Liam s Last Call written by Karl Anthony and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of the Ambulance Diaries series. I am currently working on the second book. Liam Tyler has been a paramedic for 18 years when he runs a routine call for a patient that he knows well. An unexpected tragedy occurs that places Liam in the hospital in a coma. During the Coma Liam relives many of his calls as well as other memories that have helped shape the paramedic he has become. This story is written in first person so come and relive those stories with Liam. PAIN!!! OH MY GOD!!! AAAGGGGHHHH... I open my eyes and try to scream but not sure if I am screaming. I am blinded by bright white lights and a loud, wailing screaming noise. I think I may have heard this noise before. I feel like I am falling and bumping into something constantly with my back. It may have a meaning, but I can't think about that at the moment because of the pain. It feels like someone is shoving something large and burning hot into my right chest and twisting it. I think I can hear voices. I've died and gone to Hell. I blink to try and see if I am in Hell. I see a young lady with blonde hair in a ponytail looking down at me. She reminds me of someone. Alex, it's Alex, and her face and hair appear splattered with large amounts of blood. She is talking, but I can't understand her. OH GOD, there is the pain again. I follow her arms down to my chest. OH SWEET JESUS, she is putting her index finger into my chest and pressing and twisting it. I am in hell, and they are trying to tear my heart out. I am in hell. I hear another voice and look to my left. Red hair, ponytail, green eyes, and tears are running down her face. Emmy is here to help me if I can just hear her. Wait, Emmy is grown up; what the hell is going on. Emmy bends down and talks close to my ear. "Liam, you are not in Hell. Don't you dare die. Fight brother, fight and don't give in. And try to be still so you don't bleed to death." Emmy looks up at Alex, "Damn it. He's bradying down. I've lost a radial pulse. Keep pressure on that artery. They have blood waiting. We are a minute out. Hold that artery." I knew that last bit meant something; however, I couldn't figure it out. The pain was fading and it was going to be alright. Emmy and Alex were both with me, everything was going to be ok and the blackness was coming again.

Download or read book Dance Halls and Last Calls written by Geronimo Trevino and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance. Dance Halls and Last Calls explores over one hundred of these vintage dance halls and their communities through the eyes of artists who played there.

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Download or read book Terror s Reach written by Tom Bale and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A burning summer's day explodes into violence. A murderous gang targets the exclusive south coast island of Terror's Reach, home to rival business tycoons Robert Felton and Valentin Nasenko. The residents are facing annihilation, and only one man stands a chance of saving them. Four years ago, after an undercover police operation went disastrously wrong, CID officer Joe Clayton lost his career and his family. Forced to adopt a new identity, he drifted from place to place and ended up on the Reach, working as a bodyguard to Nasenko's wife, Cassie, and her children. Now he must draw upon all his experience and reserves of strength to keep them alive. But nothing is as it seems on Terror's Reach, and a long night of betrayal and murder leaves Joe fighting for his own survival ...

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Download or read book The Stud Book written by Monica Drake and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior at the zoo. She’s well versed in the mating habits of captive animals, and at the same time she’s desperate to mate, to create sweet little offspring of her own. Georgie is busy with a newborn, while her husband, Humble, finds solace in bourbon and televised violence. Dulcet makes a living stripping down in high school gyms to sell the beauty of sex-ed. Nyla is out to save the world while having trouble saving her own teen daughter, who has discovered the world of drugs and the occult. As these friends and others navigate a space between freedom and intimacy, they realize the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth. A smart, edgy and poignantly funny exploration of the complexities of what parenthood means today, Monica Drake's second novel demonstrates that when it comes to babies, we can learn a lot by considering our place in the animal kingdom.

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Download or read book History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine written by Joseph Williamson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.