Above all else, there was strength in unity, or so everyone hoped. Women won the right to vote, the Jazz Age. But darker forces were at work: Not everyone was guzzling bootlegged liquor in defiance of the newly ratified 18th Amendment, commonly known as Prohibition. Politically, an undercurrent of divisive sentiments—Catholic vs. Protestant, rural vs. Nowhere were all these competing attitudes and contradictions more glaring than in New York City. For most of these New Yorkers, the postArmistice prosperity was as distant as their ancestral homes.