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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.
Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants.
Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the 20s was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.)
It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology.
Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.
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When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.
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I’d love to say it takes a hatchet to temperance myths…
- De L. King en 04-05-23
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Daniel Okrent
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Here is a brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of Americas favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
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Strictly an account
- De Linda en 06-05-10
De: Daniel Okrent
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Al Capone's Beer Wars
- A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
- De: John J. Binder
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.
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Great history of Chicago during prohibition!
- De Amazon Customer en 02-07-18
De: John J. Binder
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The War on Alcohol
- Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
- De: Lisa McGirr
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor White communities.
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Snarky and Woke
- De St Germain en 01-14-24
De: Lisa McGirr
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The Guarded Gate
- Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of America
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Daniel Okrent
- Duración: 14 h
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A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers - many of them progressives - who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than 40 years.
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Is history actually ‘repeating itself with Trump/Stephen Miller Policies?
- De Sean O'Shea en 07-21-19
De: Daniel Okrent
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Great Fortune
- The Epic of Rockefeller Center
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 22 h y 14 m
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At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.
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Any New Yorker should listen to this one
- De booklover en 11-03-23
De: Daniel Okrent
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Smashing the Liquor Machine
- A Global History of Prohibition
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 29 h y 16 m
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When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.
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I’d love to say it takes a hatchet to temperance myths…
- De L. King en 04-05-23
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Daniel Okrent
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Here is a brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of Americas favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
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Strictly an account
- De Linda en 06-05-10
De: Daniel Okrent
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Al Capone's Beer Wars
- A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
- De: John J. Binder
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.
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Great history of Chicago during prohibition!
- De Amazon Customer en 02-07-18
De: John J. Binder
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- Rachel R. E.
- 04-08-21
Entertaining and Educational
I will definitely be buying a hard copy of this book to add to our home library!
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- Jimmy Keebs
- 04-20-17
Boooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnggggggggg!
I expected to hear about mostly bootleggers and gangsters. I could care less about who was "wet" or who was "dry".
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- Fonz
- 06-23-20
A History of Sociopolitical Elites during Volstead
My suggested new subtitle of this book. Great for political science students, not so great for history, anthropology, gastronomy, and science buffs.
While it does so in an interesting manner, it is written with the priorities of a pre 1800s historian in that it focuses on sociopolitical elites and their maneuvering at the expense of almost every other historical factor or variable. The day to day reality of the common human is merely glanced over. It vastly focuses on the big players and ignores a wealth of probably more interesting characters, ideas, technologies, art, flavors, and textures, that (in my humble opinion) makes history feel relatable, interesting, and human.
To stick with the theme. If history is an ancient complex wine made with a million varietals, this book distills it into strong grappa, and labels it brandy. Gets the job done but kinda one note.
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- Michelle
- 07-16-18
Great story!
Loved this book. Fascinating account into history. Loved learning the names and stories of the characters behind both the rise and fall of prohibition. And, listening to this in 2018, I’m reminded of the phrase “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
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- Dr.J.A.P.
- 05-22-18
REALLY interesting
A must read for anyone interested in Prohibition... none of it happened the way you think it did. NONE of it... Hollywood completely distorted and continues to distort every single bit of it... and the Kennedy's got a horrible reputation even though they never did anything illegal ... seriously read the book
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- Carole
- 10-09-12
Prohibition preceded by the 13th Ammendment
Would you consider the audio edition of Last Call to be better than the print version?
No
What was one of the most memorable moments of Last Call?
How we drank. The influence of the Anti Saloon League.
Which character – as performed by Richard Poe – was your favorite?
None. I didn't like his narrative style. Too slow.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No
Any additional comments?
No
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- Pierre
- 11-12-12
Very Thorough Historical Review
Would you listen to Last Call again? Why?
Yes, there is so much information to assimilate, it is definitely one I will have to reference in the future.
Any additional comments?
The other reviewers of this book (top reviewers, really?) have said that this book both contains 'too much information' and at the same time 'covers already known facts'. The only way this makes sense is if the reviewers are historians... I found this book extremely informative about exactly the minute details of history that most media on the era don't have time or patience to cover. I was expecting tales of gang wars and police clashes, but was pleasantly surprised that the book focuses more on cultural and political changes and transformations that occurred before, during, and after.Yes, the story jumps focus a LOT from figure to figure, but always it is following the overall tale of the birth, bloom, and death of prohibition. I never found any section of this book to be unnecessary to painting a down-to-earth picture of this period of history. Recommend this book to anyone interested in prohibition of any kind (past or modern), formation of political movements, the rise to power of modern corporate behemoths and political families.. As well as a good example of historical periods where countries get overtaken by fear and radicalism.Lots of interesting tidbits to chew on, for many fields of interest.
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- Ben
- 11-21-16
slow at points
Sheds a new light on all the romanticized Hollywood portrayals of the Prohibition era and provides a valuable perspective on what really happened during an important chapter of our nation's history.
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- Ari
- 05-22-12
Interesting insight on a unique era of US History
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The book takes you into the rhetorical, hiistorical battles between the "wets" and "drys" with a good narration. I felt like author had his own biased and got off track at times but the narration kept it interesting. Interesting insight on a unique era of US History in lots of detail.
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- EaglesFan
- 08-29-19
Marvelous
a magnificently written and impressively researched revelation!
The reading by Richard Poe is outstanding!!!
I loved every minute of this enriching and intoxicating experience. :)
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