Rumrunners
Title | Rumrunners PDF eBook |
Author | J. Anne Funderburg |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476626707 |
In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal--it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered by aircraft engines. They out-maneuvered the U.S. Coast Guard and risked their lives to deliver illicit liquor. Smugglers like Bill McCoy, the Bahama Queen, and the Gulf Stream Pirate, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Drawing on legal records, newspaper articles and Coast Guard files, this history describes how rumrunners battled the Dry Navy and corrupted U.S. law enforcement, in order to keep America wet.
On This Spot
Title | On This Spot PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas E. Evelyn |
Publisher | Capital Books |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781933102702 |
A celebration of Washington, DC, its history, people, and neighborhoods -- through fascinating archival photos and lively accounts
Rum Row
Title | Rum Row PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Carse |
Publisher | New York : Rinehart |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Prohibition |
ISBN |
Prologue
Title | Prologue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Archives |
ISBN |
Iced
Title | Iced PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Schneider |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 657 |
Release | 2009-12-09 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0470835001 |
"You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history.
Collier's
Title | Collier's PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1298 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Time
Title | Time PDF eBook |
Author | Briton Hadden |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 948 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Current events |
ISBN |
Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-