Firebrands The untold story of four women who made and unmade Prohibition
Book - 2024
"Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on the history of Prohibition focuses on four women who played central roles in promoting, enforcing, profiting from, and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment: Ella Boole, the head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; Texas Guinan, a star of silent films and Vaudeville who ran glitzy speakeasies; Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a genuine trailblazer tasked with enforcing Prohibition in the Department of Justice; and Pauline Sabin, a Chicago socialite who led the drive toward repeal. Cumulatively, Diliberto creates a varied and dynamic portrait of women in power, as both activists and institutionalists, in both politics and culture"--
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- Subjects
- Published
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xvii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780226819679
- Prologue
- 1. Send a Mother to the Senate
- 2. Pauline's Way
- 3. The Enforcer
- 4. America's Most Powerful Woman
- 5. Queen of the Night
- 6. A True Handmaiden of Justice
- 7. The Moral Napoleon
- 8. Vote Dry-or Else!
- 9. Crooked
- 10. Kansas City
- 11. Hoover for President
- 12. Hoover Wins
- 13. Pauline's Revolt
- 14. The Famous and the Fallen
- 15. Tex on Trial
- 16. Private Practice
- 17. Notorious
- 18. Bitter Spirits
- 19. The Sisterhood of Repeal
- 20. The Women's War
- 21. Second Acts
- 22. Repeal
- 23. The End of Something
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index