Author: Charles W. JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Bootlegger's Paradise
Author: Charles W. JacksonA Bootleggers' Paradise in the Bahamas
Author: For Sale —American Paradise
Author: Willie DryePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301899X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.
Bootleggers in Paradise
Author: Robert T. MasonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500603564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bootleggers in Paradise, is the story of a family in a tiny, placid fishing village on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. The family is in the boat and bait business, which does well in the summer, but not well enough to keep them through the winter. To take care of the shortfall, they run booze and Cuban cigars across the lake to the states and bring back cigarettes on a few trips each summer. The family has done this since the prohibition years. It's routine to them, with the same people supplying the liquor in Canada and the same people buying it in the U.S. Change comes when their long lost cousin shows up from the states and there become moral questions about family loyalties and dealings with the law.
Pamphlets on the Liquor Problem
Author: The Musical Monitor
Author: The Independent
Author: Black Hat
Author: DUP John BiggsPublisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430206926
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
* Accessible to both lay readers and decision-makers * These stories are as exciting, if even more exciting, than even the most fast-paced movie adventure. Hackers strike quickly and with disastrous results. The story and post-mortems are fascinating * Homes are becoming increasingly wired and, thanks to Wi-Fi, unwired. What are the associated risks of fast Internet? * Technology is everywhere. People who subvert and damage technology will soon by enemy #1. * The author is an internationally recognized authority on computer security
Prohibition in Sacramento
Author: Annette KassisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846215
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Sacramento's open opposition to Prohibition and ties to rumrunning up and down the California coast caused some to label the capital the wettest city in the nation. The era from World War I until the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment brought Sacramento storied institutions like Mather Field and delightful surprises like a thriving film industry, but it wasn't all pretty. The Ku Klux Klan, ethnic immigrant hatred and open hostility toward Catholics and Jews were dark chapters in the Prohibition era as Sacramento began to shape its modern identity. Join historian Annette Kassis on an exploration of this wet--and dry--snapshot of the River City.
Bootleggers and Borders
Author: Stephen T. MoorePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803254911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930. Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values. Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight into not only the Canada-U.S. relationship but also the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.