Cheers to Michael Lerner's brilliant delve into Prohibition in New York City! Dry Manhattan gives a riveting taste of how it was in 1920s Prohibition-`dry' (or not so dry indeed) NYC.Dry Manhattan takes us along through the beginning of Prohibition to it's repeal, catching us up in the Roaring Twenties along the way, but even more notably bringing out the undercurrents -the lead-up to and the backdrop of the `dry', speakeasy-nightclub-bootlegging-flapper-filled scene. Dry Manhattan offers a candid view of the crux of Prohibition, what was really behind it and what was really at peril. As Lerner shows, despite the 18th Ammendment and the `dry' instigators/enforcers trying to make the city (or rather the country) dry, NYC remained wet; the cities
