Prohibition
Prohibition

Author: Sylvia Engdahl

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2012-12-14

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0737768010

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This historical survey explores the events that lead to the passage of the 18th Amendment. Descriptions of life during prohibition, and the events that led to its repeal are shared. Readers will evaluate whether it violated personal liberty, and whether the prohibition law should be modified or repealed. This book also includes personal narratives from those who experienced prohibition firsthand, including a man's recollection of going to speakeasies as a teen; another's recounting of his career as a bootlegger; and a prohibition agent's tales of enforcing the law.

Memory
Memory

Author: Alison Winter

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0226902587

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Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.