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Author : Thomas R. Pegram
Release : 1998
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Battling Demon Rum by : Thomas R. Pegram
Download or read book Battling Demon Rum written by Thomas R. Pegram. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pegram's account of the fight to regulate alcohol traces the moral and political campaigns of the temperance advocates.
Author : Thomas R. Pegram
Release : 1998
Genre : Alcoholism
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Battling Demon Rum by : Thomas R. Pegram
Download or read book Battling Demon Rum written by Thomas R. Pegram. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform....Highly recommended. --Library Journal. American Ways Series.
Author : Thomas R. Pegram
Release : 2011-10-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 220/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Hundred Percent American by : Thomas R. Pegram
Download or read book One Hundred Percent American written by Thomas R. Pegram. This book was released on 2011-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several million members and additional millions of sympathizers collapsed into insignificance. Since the 1990s, intensive community-based historical studies have reinterpreted the 1920s Klan. Rather than the violent, racist extremists of popular lore and current observation, 1920s Klansmen appear in these works as more mainstream figures. Sharing a restrictive American identity with most native-born white Protestants after World War I, hooded knights pursued fraternal fellowship, community activism, local reforms, and paid close attention to public education, law enforcement (especially Prohibition), and moral/sexual orthodoxy. No recent general history of the 1920s Klan movement reflects these new perspectives on the Klan. One Hundred Percent American incorporates them while also highlighting the racial and religious intolerance, violent outbursts, and political ambition that aroused widespread opposition to the Invisible Empire. Balanced and comprehensive, One Hundred Percent American explains the Klan's appeal, its limitations, and the reasons for its rapid decline in a society confronting the reality of cultural and religious pluralism.
Author : John E. Hallwas
Release : 1999-05
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger by : John E. Hallwas
Download or read book The Bootlegger written by John E. Hallwas. This book was released on 1999-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In unraveling the process by which Colchester, Illinois, lost its grip on the American promise, John Hallwas reveals this remote corner of the Midwest as a true reflection of the quintessential American experience.
Author : Tom Gjelten
Release : 2008-09-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 986/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by : Tom Gjelten
Download or read book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba written by Tom Gjelten. This book was released on 2008-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.
