Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
9.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28446
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
154
Points per Page
0.032468
Description
This chronicle of Prohibition in the United States covers the period from 1920 to 1933, when it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, and discusses how a movement to heal social ills became a burden to ordinary citizens and fame to gangsters.