Feature Essay: Discovering the Inner Bootlegger
Mabel Walker Willebrandt prosecuted Prohibition offenders with zeal. Then she joined the bootleggers.
The job of prosecuting offenders during Prohibition was about as popular as prosecuting tax offenders and running the federal prison system. No wonder President Warren G. Harding appointed a woman to handle all three tasks. And not just any woman. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who was born this day in 1889, became one of the most famous women in America for…
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