Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’t

In 1929, it was estimated that every week bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits into Washington, D.C.'s three thousand speakeasies. H.L. Mencken called it the "thirteen awful years," though it was sixteen for the District. Nevertheless, the bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. Author Garrett Peck crafts a More »