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When the rivers ran red : an amazing story of courage and triumph in America's wine country / Vivienne Sosnowski.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sosnowski, Vivienne.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vintners--California, Northern--History--20th century.
Vintners.
Wine--Social aspects--California, Northern--History--20th century.
Wine.
Vintners--California, Northern--Biography.
Prohibition--California, Northern.
Prohibition.
Prohibition--United States.
Social conditions.
History.
Violence.
Wine--Social aspects.
United States.
Violence--California, Northern--History--20th century.
California, Northern--History--20th century.
California, Northern.
California, Northern--Social conditions--20th century.
Northern California.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xx, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Amazing story of courage and triumph in America's wine country
Courage and triumph in America's wine country
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Contents:
The land was sacred to these families
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap
These vines are like members of my family
It was a clamoring mob
To hell with Prohibition
If we hadn't bootlegged, we wouldn't have survived
Almost as ubiquitous as the radiance of the moon itself
A million dollars to go away to France
The reign of the bludgeon and of force
The worst and most cruel experiences.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-220) and index.
ISBN:
9780230605749 :
0230605745 :
OCLC:
226357172

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