Prologue -- Send a mother to the Senate -- Pauline's way -- The enforcer -- America's most powerful woman -- Queens of the night -- A true handmaiden of justice -- The moral Napoleon -- Vote dry - or else! -- Crooked -- Kansas City -- Hoover for president -- Hoover wins -- Pauline's revolt -- The famous and the fallen -- Tex on trial -- Private practice -- Notorious -- Bitter spirits -- The sisterhood of repeal -- The women's war -- Second acts -- Repeal -- The end of something -- Epilogue

"Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on the history of Prohibition focuses on four women who played central roles in promoting, enforcing, profiting from, and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment: Ella Boole, the head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; Texas Guinan, a star of silent films and Vaudeville who ran glitzy speakeasies; Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a genuine trailblazer tasked with enforcing Prohibition in the Department of Justice; and Pauline Sabin, a Chicago socialite who led the drive toward repeal. Cumulatively, Diliberto creates a varied and dynamic portrait of women in power, as both activists and institutionalists, in both politics and culture"--