Eight million sots in the Naked City: how prohibition was imposed on, and rejected by, New York.
Reason › Vol. 39 Nbr. 6, November 2007
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Eight million sots in the Naked City: how prohibition was imposed on, and rejected by, New York.
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Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, by Michael A. Lerner, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 351 pages, $28.95 The Diary of a Rum-Runner, by Alastair Moray, Mystic: Flat Hammock Press, 193 pages, $16.95 Smugglers of Spirits: Prohibition and the Coast Guard Patrol, by Harold Waters, Mystic: Flat Hammock Press, 186 pages, $16.95 DURING PROHIBITION an off-Broadway restaurateur smuggled liquor for his patrons' enjoyment. He and several others would purchase the illegal hooch from a collection of offshore ships called Rum Row. Back on land, the men would pack the cases into a furniture-moving van and drive to a garage just outside New York. There they would wait until dawn, when fewer witnesses were about, to bring the booze into the city. One day the men arrived at the garage and learned that revenue agents (the Bureau of Prohibition was part of the...See the full content of this document
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