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

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

Sosnowski, Vivienne

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Including moments of both desperation and joy, Sosnowski tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people fought to protect to a beautiful and timeless culture in the lovely hills and valleys of now-celebrated wine country. INDICE: Prologue - The Land Was Sacred to These Families - 'No Nation Is Drunken Where Wine Is Cheap' - 'These Vines Are Like Members of My Famil - '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 andMost Cruel Experiences to Which a Thrifty and Prosperous Rural Community Was Ever Subject'

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-60574-9
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés