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Rumrunners : Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933

by J. Anne Funderburg

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1476667578
ISBN-13 9781476667577
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 11th, 2016
Print length 208 Pages
Weight 363 grams
Dimensions 25.40 x 17.80 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification: History of the Americas20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Ksh 5,500.00
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Tells the riveting true stories of Prohibition's most notorious rumrunners - the daring men and women who sailed the high seas to defy the Volstead Act. With cunning, courage, and machine guns, the rumrunners battled the Dry Navy forces led by the US Coast Guard. When Prohibition ended, Rum Row faded away. But the rumrunners survived as outlaw legends in American history.

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and the Gulf Stream Pirate, along with many others, ran operations along the U.S. coastline until Prohibition was repealed in 1933.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.

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