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Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties
Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason 		Although violating Prohibition was pervaisive and widespread throughout the United States, nowhere more than in Michigan was the general public so involved in innovative and industrious smuggling of contraband liquor. Tens of thousands of Detroit and Michigan residents owed their livlihoods to this illegal activity.
In Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties, Philip P. Mason provides a fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan. Lively text, hundreds of photographs, and a glossary of prohibition terms bring to life the 1920s, when bootleggers, flappers, and speakeasies dominated American culture.

Contents:

1. Michigan's Prohibition Experiment
2. The Eighteenth Amendment
3. Detroit During Prohibition
4. Enforcement of the Volstead Act
5. Repeal of Prohibition
 Philip P. Mason is Distinguished Professor of History at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.


                bottle up yer shirt
 

Great Lakes Books Series

$37.95l cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2583-1

182 pages / 8.5 x 11
230 illustrations

1995