Acknowledgments

The writer acknowledges with appreciation and gratitude his indebtedness to the authors of the following books, who are historians of the events leading to and coming after the Eighteenth U.S. Constitutional Amendment:

KENNETH ALSOP The Bootleggers and Their Era (Doubleday, 1961)

HERBERT ASBURY The Great Illusion (Doubleday, 1950)

ALFRED CONNABLE and EDWARD SILBERFARB Tigers of Tammany (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967)

VIRGINIA COWLES 1913: The Defiant Swan Song (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1967)

K. GUNTER Prohibition (Walter Neale, 1931)

JOHN ALLEN KROUT The Origins of Prohibition (Alfred A. Knopf, 1925)

ANDREW SINCLAIR Prohibition, the Era of Excess (Little, Brown, 1962)

CRAIG THOMPSON and ALLEN RAYMOND Gang Rule in New York: The Story of a Lawless Era (The Dial Press, 1940)

CLARENCE TRUE WILSON and DEETS PICKETT The Case for Prohibition (Funk & Wagnalls, 1923)

Special acknowledgment is made to Norman Lewis, The Honored Society (Collins, London, 1964)