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Moonshiners Bootleggers & Rumrunners by Derek Nelson
Moonshiners Bootleggers & Rumrunners by Derek Nelson
Soft Cover
180 pages
Copyright 1995
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments6
Introduction 7
Chapter 1 History of Moonshining15
Chapter 2 Chemistry of Moonshine and Bootleg Liquor23
Chapter 3 Stills and Their Operators29
Chapter 4 The Revenuer49
Chapter 5 Bootlegging: the Techniques, Ploys, and Methods 72
Chapter 6 Rumrunning: from "Gentleman's Game" to Syndicate Operation 95
Chapter 7 The Coast Guard Battles Rumrunners109
Chapter 8 Rumrunning by Boat118
Chapter 9 Cast of Characters128
Chapter 10 Hazards of the Game142
Chapter 11 Moonshiners in the Media161
Chapter 12 Famous Places167
Glossary184
Bibliography 190
Index192
INTRODUCTION
Ever since mankind discovered the intoxicating possibilities offered by a
few readily available ingredients and a little crude chemistry, the debate over alcohol has raged. And nowhere more loudly than in America. The shouting match between drinkers and distillers on one side and teetotalers and tax agents on the other has created a din that predated the American Revolution, peaked during Prohibition, and continues, unabated, today.
Author Derek Nelson presents a "cast of characters that includes Scotch-Irish immigrants, Revolutionary War heroes, blockade-runners, pirates, hard-drinking pioneers, wealthy and vicious gangsters, devil-may-care adventurers, and ludicrously incompetent amateurs." It's a story that "winds through obscure places and famous cities, from the gray Atlantic seas of Rum Row to smoky Appalachian hollows, from pitch-dark dirt roads in Carolina to the blaring speakeasies of New York in the 1930s."
Moonshiners, Bootleggers & Rumrunners is filled with the exploits of shifty-eyed moonshiners tending backwoods stills; daring bootleggers hustling cars laden with "tax-free" whiskey over rural highways; revenuers pursuing their quarry on foot, in cars, and from airplanes; and rumrunners and Coast Guard ships engaging in the occasionally fatal "booze ballet."
More that 125 black and white historical photographs accompany this thoroughly researched and entertaining look at America's love/ hate relationship with "demon rum."
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