Gioia Diliberto presents Firebrands

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1964/Title: Firebrands Author: Gioia Diliberto Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins Release date: 02-18-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In Gioia Diliberto's take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned to introduce Prohibition. We also meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who served as the top federal prosecutor charged with enforcing Prohibition. Diliberto tells the story, too, of silent film star Texas Guinan, who ran New York speakeasies backed by the mob and showed that Prohibition was not only absurd but unenforceable. And, she follows Pauline Morton Sabin, a glamorous Manhattan aristocrat who mobilized the movement to kill it.