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America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies and grog shops / Christine Sismondo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sismondo, Christine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--United States--History.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Drinking customs--United States--History.
- Drinking customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out a certain assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern. In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England, showing how even the Puritans valued ""a good B
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART I; PART II; PART III; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-975293-1
- 1-283-13025-4
- 9786613130259
- 0-19-975316-4
- OCLC:
- 732051960
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