Wicked Albany lawlessness & liquor in the Prohibition era
(2009)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2009
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781614232841 (electronic bk.) MWT11507370, 1614232849 (electronic bk.) 11507370
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. As it did nationwide, Prohibition in Albany served merely to force alcohol-related commerce underground and lawlessness and violence to the forefront of city activity
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