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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, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar...
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Ginger Kelly wakes up in 1924 Cocoa Beach, Florida, after fleeing to safety with disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister Patsy. But Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste to patrol for rumrunners on the high seas. When he disappears, Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's mother. In 1998, Ella Dommerich is settled into her new...
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2023.
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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