A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and o

Thomas Pegram's account of the fight to regulate alcohol traces the moral and political campaigns of the temperance advocates.

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and

This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement w

Angeles Falco seemed like something straight from a fifties detective movie when she walked into Sam Turner¿s office ¿ beautiful, dark and enigmatic, but made