The Bootlegger's Daughter: A San Francisco Tale

In San Francisco, in the post-1906-earthquake era, young Ann White-a daughter of Irish immigrants-does what it takes to survive...

Amid a backdrop of poverty, politics, and Prohibition, her father turns to bootlegging, and Ann becomes his unlikely accomplice, transporting whiskey through the streets of San Francisco in a doll-covered wagon alongside her spirited, fun-loving sister Bette.

As the decades unfold-from the Spanish Flu and Prohibition to the Great Depression and World War II-Ann en...