Moonshine by Moonlight

Join Iowa Author Ann Hanigan Kotz as she discusses her new book, Moonshine by Moonlight. She discusses Iowa's prohibition and bootlegging history as she introduces her 3rd novel. By the light of the moon, hidden in the rolling hills of 1923 Carroll County, Iowa, illegal whiskey flows from homemade stills. Defying Prohibition, farmers-turned-entrepreneurs turn their hog houses, barns, and basements into moonshine operations to feed their families and save their land while dodging the ever-present federal regulators, led by Alvin Truly, the newly deputized agent of the northern district. To stay ahead of the law, the distillers band together into a syndicate, led by a kingpin unknown to all but one man. The anonymous bootleg king builds an empire of whiskey with thousands of gallons of moonshine flowing over Iowa’s borders while conjuring bigger and better ways to get their product across state lines—some going to the famous Chicago mobster—before…