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When the rivers ran red : an amazing story of courage and triumph in America's wine country / Vivienne Sosnowski.
- 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
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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