![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy) made his fortune during Prohibition as a bootlegger," Dan says. "The one thing I thought I knew for sure when I started the book: Joe Kennedy (father of President John F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joe Kennedy along with the lesser-known-but-just-as-vivid Wayne Wheeler and Pauline Sabin - to move the story of the 18th Amendment and create in readers a page-turning chorus of "I didn't know that!" He awakens ghosts from American history - Carry Nation, Billy Sunday, Al Smith, William Jennings Bryan, Al Capone, F. ![]() The newly released "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" (Scribner, $30) is his latest book, one that took him four and a half years to research and write. ![]()
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