Prohibition in Sacramento moralizers & bootleggers in the wettest city in the nation
(2014)
By:
Kassis, Annette
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781625846211 (electronic bk.) MWT11509366, 1625846215 (electronic bk.) 11509366
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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