Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction. Sacramento: the Wettest City? 11
1 Sacramento: City of Saloons 15
The Most Filthy and Degraded and Undesirable Classes 18
Going After California One Region at a Time 20
Teaching Children and Blaming Immigrants 21
Local Breweries, Local Saloons and Local Hops 25
2 World War I and the Eighteenth Amendment 33
Flight Schools and Foodstuffs 41
"Over Here, Over Here, There is Beer, Beaucoup Beer, Over Here" 48
Why Not One More Constitutional Amendment? 51
Last Public Rites for Liquor 53
Good for What Ails You? 56
A Florin Wincry Makes Big Headlines 60
Near Beer, Home-Brew and Nature's Gifts from the Silo 63
3 The Ku Klux Klan Comes to Town 67
A New Klan with New Fears 70
Kleagle Fuller and the Sacramento Klan 72
A List of Names Unleashes a Firestorm of Outrage 77
Rome, Rum and Rebellion 81
The Klan Targets Woolwine 83
Klan Implosion, Flaming Youth and a Nifty Little Vanity Case 86
4 Brazen Bootleggers and Lax Enforcement 91
Mommy Was a Bootlegger 93
Battering Rams and Stool Pigeons 95
Mabel Walker Willebrand: From California Lawyer to U.S. Assistant Attorney General 99
An Emphasis on the Small-Time Operator 101
5 Speakeasies and Virtuecrats 105
Hollywood and Wine 108
Society Women Begin to Push for Reform 113
Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the "Smart Set" 116
The People Have Had Enough 119
Sacramento's Society Bootlegger and a Product Called Vine-Glo 122
6 Menacing Bootleggers, Missing Boilermakers and Taking the "Near" Out of Beer 127
Want a Biolermaker? Too Bad 129
California-Booze Battleground 131
In the Aftermath 134
From "How Dry I Am" to "Happy Days Are Here Again" 136
Notes 139
Index 151
About the Author 155
