Prohibition - The Era of Excess

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Sinclair (born 1935) was a novelist, historian, critic and film-maker. He was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge. From his rich, varied and extensive bibliography, Faber Finds reissued his first two novels, The Breaking of Bumbo and My Friend Judas , both published in 1959, his history of Prohibition in America, Prohibition: The Era of Excess and his cultural history of Britain in the 1940s, War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties. Klappentext The prohibition of liquor in the United States from 1920 to 1933 created the myth of the flapper and gangster. This title presents an account of Andrew Sinclair's! that show how this extraordinary experiment was the product of the age-old conflict of country against city! of the God-fearing farmer against the corrupt urban rich. Zusammenfassung a social history, comprehensive, detailed, documented, and well written.' Arthur Weinberg, Chicago Tribune'Here is a work of real social history, at once scholarly and entertaining, thoughtful, penetrating and analytical.' John A.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrew Sinclair
• Collaboration: Andre Sinclair (Editeur), Andrew Sinclair (Editeur)
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 21.05.2009
• EAN: 9780571251414
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25141-4
• Pages: 516
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Œuvre principale avant 1945; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; USA, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), America; Corruption; Faber Finds; Gangsters; Social History