عنوان

When the rivers ran red :

(Number (ISBN

0230605745

(Number (ISBN

9780230605749

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b726554

Title Proper

When the rivers ran red :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an amazing story of courage and triumph in America's wine country /

First Statement of Responsibility

Vivienne Sosnowski.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.

Text of Note

The land was sacred to these families -- No nation is drunken where 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 -- Almost as ubiquitous as the radiance of the moon itself -- A million dollars to go away to France -- The reign of the bludgeon and of force -- The worst and most cruel experiences.

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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 to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons of wine in the rivers and creeks, gun battles erupted on dark country roads, and local law enforcement officers, sympathetic to their winemaking neighbors, found ways to run circles around the intruding authorities. For the state's winemaking families--many of them immigrants from Italy--surviving Prohibition meant facing impossible decisions, whether to give up the idyllic way of life their families had known for generations, or break the law to enable their wine businesses and their livelihood to survive. 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.

Parallel Title

Amazing story of courage and triumph in America's wine country

Parallel Title

Courage and triumph in America's wine country

Prohibition

Prohibition-- California, Northern.

Prohibition-- United States.

Vintners-- California, Northern-- History-- 20th century.

Vintners-- California, Northern, Biography.

Violence-- California, Northern-- History-- 20th century.

Wine-- Social aspects-- California, Northern-- History-- 20th century.

Négociants en vins-- Californie (États-Unis)-- 20e siècle.

Négociants en vins-- Californie (États-Unis)-- Biographies.

Prohibition-- États-Unis.

Prohibition.

Social conditions

Vin-- Aspect social-- Californie (États-Unis)-- 20e siècle.

Vintners.

Violence.

Weinbau

Wine-- Social aspects.

California, Northern, History, 20th century.

California, Northern, Social conditions, 20th century.

Kalifornien, Nord

Northern California.

United States.

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Book number

Sosnowski, Vivienne.

Date of Transaction

20201213210811.0

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