| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

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Kathleen Drowne. Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 189. Cloth $59.95, paper $21.95, CD $9.95.

Historians will find much that is enlightening and entertaining in Kathleen Drowne's book. Drawing on Prohibition-era fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others, Drowne compares the authors' portrayals of drink culture to those that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly analyses during and after the "dry decade" (1920–1933). "Collectively," she argues, "the works of fiction addressed in this book offer a realistic, historically accurate picture of how different kinds of Americans responded to the legal, social, and cultural changes wrought by the passage of National Prohibition" (p. 5). Historians may be more skeptical about the reliability of such literary evidence than Drowne, whose training is in literary, not historical, analysis. Nevertheless, her study provides a gold mine of contemporary references to Jazz Age free spirits who gleefully drank spirits in open defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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