It takes the average reader 7 hours and 21 minutes to read Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition by Francesco Landolfi
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This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance...
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition by Francesco Landolfi is 428 pages long, and a total of 110,424 words.
This makes it 144% the length of the average book. It also has 135% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 3 minutes to read Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition aloud.
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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