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Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners and Graft in the Queen City (American Palate)
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About Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners And
Product Description Prohibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways and even its town hall. Roy Olmstead, formerly a Seattle police officer, became the King of the Seattle Bootleggers, and Johnny Schnarr, running liquor down from Canada, helped to revolutionize the speedboat industry with his innovative rum-running ships. Frank Gatt, a south Seattle restaurateur, started the state's biggest moonshining operation. Skirting around the law, the Coast Guard and the zealous assistant director of the Seattle Prohibition Bureau, William Whitney, was no simple feat, but many rose to the challenge. Author Brad Holden tells the spectacular story of Seattle in the time of Prohibition. Holden's book was included in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine's "Big Seattle Reading List," was chosen as one of the best non-fiction books of 2019 by the King County Library, and excepts of the book appeared as a cover story in Pacific Northwest Magazine. Review "When you live in Seattle long enough, at a certain point you need to sit down and read a history that ties together the half-heard stories about vice dens and crooked cops you've pieced together from locals at the bar. Brad Holden's "Seattle Prohibition," a slim but dense account of Seattle shortly before, during and after Prohibition, is an excellent place to start. This is a riveting drama of plainly told facts." -The Stranger "During Prohibition, Seattle was awash in rumrunners delivering hooch to blind pigs - not to mention the many swampers and highbinders who helped bootleggers evade stool pigeons and dry agents. There's more slang where this came from (in addition to fascinating city history) in the new book, "Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners & Graft in the Queen City." Local author and historian Brad Holden vividly illustrates this rough-and-tumble time in Seattle." -Crosscut "In a rapidly evolving city with little sense of its past, Brad Holden is Seattle's new, essential cultural historian. His book builds a better understanding of how we arrived at the present and does it with color, wit and artful storytelling." -Thomas Kohnstamm, author of Lake City "Elements of this story may be familiar to those who know some regional history, but there are some fascinating tidbits, such as how the booze trade contributed to the city's first radio station." -The Tacoma News Tribune "An amazingly thorough book on an under-reported but hugely important phase of Seattle history. A lazier author would have settled for detailing the colorful characters, layers of corruption, and bizarre events that defined the Prohibition era, but Holden aims far higher: he takes care both to place Seattle's complicated relationship with Prohibition in the context of Seattle history, and to show how the Prohibition era defined so much of the city's subsequent history and character." -Fred Moody, author of Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story About the Author Brad Holden is a local historian, collector and self-proclaimed urban archaeologist who searches for historical artifacts at estate sales, flea markets and dusty old attics. He showcases these historical finds on his Instagram page, [email protected], as well as hosting exhibits at local venues. Brad also volunteers his time at the Edmonds Historical Museum. This is his first published book.
