| Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice Contributor(s): Simonson, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 154022855X ISBN-13: 9781540228550 Publisher: History Press Library Editions OUR PRICE: $28.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - True Crime | Organized Crime - Cooking | Beverages - Alcoholic- General |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas - Geographic Orientation - Missouri - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
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| Publisher Description: Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City. |
Contributor Bio(s): Simonson, John: - John Simonson is the author of two other books published by The History Press: Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways (2010) and Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year (2013). He lives in Kansas City, Missouri. |