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156 pages : 23 cm 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 But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest.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 Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152) and index John Barleycorn is (not quite) dead -- King of the bootleggers -- Four highballs -- Greed, vice, and sensuality -- Yokels and high rollers -- Let us dare to do our duty -- Something more than beer -- Wet and wicked

Author

John Simonson

Publisher

Charleston, SC: American Palate, a division of The History Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781467138710

Subjects

True Crime, Photography, Historical Fiction