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Release Year: 2024

ISBN: 9780226819679

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISBN-10

0226819671

ISBN-13

9780226819679

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14065332403

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Book Title

Firebrands : the Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition

Number of Pages

336 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2024

Topic

Women, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Social History

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Social Science, History

Author

Gioia Diliberto

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

1.2 in

Item Weight

22.1 Oz

Item Length

9 in

Item Width

6 in

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Trade

LCCN

2024-011408

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In this action-packed tale, Diliberto successfully illustrates how four women with radically different backgrounds--a leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, an actress running a speakeasy, the prosecutor charged with the enforcement of Prohibition, and an aristocrat--led the fight for their respective sides. In a book about an era synonymous with gangsters and flappers, readers will appreciate Diliberto's deep dive into these women's lives and her new take on women's roles during this time period. . . . Diliberto's writing style and the subject matter are likely to appeal to readers across genres., Diliberto, the author of celebrated biographies and biographical fiction about women, examines Prohibition and its repeal through the lives of women who used their emergent emancipation to affect social and legal change. With culture wars raging, Diliberto's lively and cogent historical profiles are keenly relevant., Firebrands is that rarest of narratives--a true story packed with Hollywood-worthy characters that reads like a thriller. In Diliberto's hands, four titanic women of the Jazz Age not only collide in an epic battle for the soul of America, but become harbingers of our own lives and times. A masterpiece of storytelling and reporting that dances on nearly every page with the thrill of the dawning of new eras., Diliberto is a masterful storyteller. In Firebrands, she brings into focus the lives of four fascinating and passionate women who joined the early twentieth-century fight for women's equality and the right to be recognized professionally and politically, regardless of their sex. The book reads like an action-packed political drama, full of big stakes and big personalities, but that doubles as a study of how women were radically redefining their roles both in public and private spaces in the wake of the nineteenth amendment., Gioia Diliberto's unconventional portrait of the Jazz Age shifts the spotlight away from flappers and femme fatales to the rebels and reformers who 'played politics like a man.' Firebrands shows how the Noble Experiment of Prohibition was driven by female ambition, sparking an era of women's political power that remains unmatched in American history., A reminder that . . . the dynamic, capable women behind national movements are all too often written out of the history they help make., Firebrands visits the Roaring Twenties and beyond, revealing how four women's efforts shaped the course of American history. . . . Set against a familiar backdrop of flappers and mobsters, Firebrands retells history anew, demonstrating the crucial contributions women made to a fascinating time in the US., Diliberto's story of four women's activism in the early 20th century is well-researched, original, and refreshing, especially since this was a period, as the author points out, characterized by phenomena familiar today: 'craven politicians, fake news, and a Congress in the grip of a fanatical minority.'

Dewey Decimal

344.73054109252

Table Of Content

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 Abbreviations Notes A Note on Sources Selected Bibliography Index

Synopsis

Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments. In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands is the story of four Jazz Age dynamos--all women -who were forces behind the passage, the enforcement, the defiance, and, ultimately, the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. They battled each other directly, and they learned to marshal clout with cowed and hypocritical legislators, almost all of them men. Their clash over Prohibition stands as the first significant exercise of women's political power since women gained the right to vote, and their influence on the American political scene wouldn't be equaled for decades. In Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned fiercely to introduce Prohibition and fought desperately to keep it alive. We also meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the most powerful woman in America at the time, who served as the top federal prosecutor charged with enforcing Prohibition. Diliberto tells the story, too, of silent film star Texas Guinan, who ran New York speakeasies backed by the mob and showed that Prohibition was not only absurd but unenforceable. And, she follows Pauline Morton Sabin, a glamorous Manhattan aristocrat who belatedly recognized the cascading evil in Prohibition and mobilized the movement to kill it. These women led their opposing forces of "Wets" and "Drys" across a teeming landscape of bootleggers, gangsters, federal agents, temperance fanatics, and cowardly politicians, many of them secret drunks. Building on the momentum of suffrage, they forged a path for the activists who followed during the great civil rights battles of the mid-twentieth century. Yet, they have been largely lost to history. In Firebrands , Diliberto finally gives these dynamic figures their due, creating a varied and dramatic portrait of women wielding power, in politics, society, and popular culture.

LC Classification Number

HV5089.D555 2024

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