Category: Prohibition

• June 18, 2018

  Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from A Bootlegger’s Manual

  

  When I was writing my book, A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana (History Press), about Nettie Diamond, a wealthy widow and pharmacist who was murdered by her fifth husband, a much younger bootlegger named Harry in Indiana Harbor on Valentine’s Day 1923, one of the things I learned was that it was relatively easy…
• October 4, 2017

  Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition

  Prohibition in Chicago was the ultimate business opportunity for the violent men who made up the many gangs who fought to control alcohol as well as narcotics, gambling, labor and business racketeering and prostitution in the city. And while there were turf wars during Prohibition in many American cities, Chicago was the bloodiest of all.…