Dry Manhattan

Prohibition in New York City

Michael A. Lerner

  • Washington Post Book World Top 100 Nonfiction Book of 2007
  • Washington Post Critic Jonathan Yardley's Top 10 of 2007
  • Slate Best Books of the Year selection

Introduction

1. The Dry Crusade

2. A New Era?

3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task

4. The Brewers of Bigotry

5. The Itch to Try New Things

6. Vote as You Drink

7. I Represent the Women of America!

8. Hooch Joints In Harlem

9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation

10. The End of the Party

11. A Surging Wet Tide

12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Dry Manhattan
  • A photo of the author

Michael A. Lerner is Associate Dean of Studies at Bard High School Early College in New York City.