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Vivienne SosnowskiPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) TP557 .S67 2009 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California’s legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines–and in many cases still do ?turned tostruggle and subterfuge to savetheindustry we now cherish. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Vintners — California, Northern — History — 20th century
- Wine — Social aspects — California, Northern — History — 20th century
- Vintners — California, Northern — Biography
- Prohibition — California, Northern
- Prohibition — United States
- Violence — California, Northern — History — 20th century
- California, Northern — History — 20th century
- California, Northern — Social conditions — 20th century
Contents
- The land was sacred to these families
- No nation is drunken where the 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
- Moonshine is almost as ubiquitous as the radiance from the Moon itself
- We never wore shoes in summer, or, A million dollars to go away to France
- The reign of bludgeon and of force
- The worst and most cruel experiences to which a thrifty and prosperous rural community was ever subject
ISBN
- 0230605745
- 9780230605749
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