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Rumrunners
- Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933
Engelsk Paperback
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Rumrunners
- Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933
Engelsk Paperback

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In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered by aircraft engines. They out-maneuvered the U.S. Coast Guard and risked their lives to deliver illicit liquor.

Smugglers like Bill McCoy, the Bahama Queen, and the Gulf Stream Pirate, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Drawing on legal records, newspaper articles and Coast Guard files, this history describes how rumrunners battled the Dry Navy and corrupted U.S. law enforcement, in order to keep America wet.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781476667577
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476667578
Udg. Dato:
11 nov 2016
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
11 nov 2016
Forfatter(e):
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