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