Summary: This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 363.41 Prohibition 2011

Summary: This explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC P

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRO

Mason, Philip P. (Philip Parker)

Summary: History of life in Michigan during prohibition when seventy-five percent of the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States came across the Detroit River from Canada.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIO 364.133 MAS

Summary: Two religious ladies, who witnessed brutal murders, are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMO

McGirr, Lisa

Summary: "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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 MCG

Lehane, Dennis.

Summary: By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEH

Bird, Kai

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR