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Makers & shakers : a hidden history of Black Americans in booze / Troy Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Troy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Alcohol use--History.
- African Americans.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--United States--History.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Alcoholic beverage industry--United States--History.
- Alcoholic beverage industry.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Bartenders--United States--Biography.
- Bartenders.
- Distilling industries--United States--History.
- Distilling industries.
- Drinking customs--United States--History.
- Drinking customs.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Makers and shakers
- Hidden history of Black Americans in booze
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- "From colorful characters like Cato Alexander, New York's first celebrity bartender, to sad and disturbing stories about Jack Daniel's heirs, Makers & Shakers has a little bit of everything for everyone. Join Washington, D.C.-based author and producer of ardent spirits Troy Hughes on a historical romp through booze-infused tales about Black Americans. Discover the stories of pioneering Montana moonshiner Bertie Brown and the ill-fated partnership of Diddy and Diageo. Find out about Ripple, the national drink of Watts, and learn how cognac became the unofficial drink of Black America."
- Contents:
- Foreword / Samara B. Davis
- Wine: A Tale of Two Virginians and the Unholy Trinity
- Beer: Ted Mack Sr. and the Pretenders
- "Brother Bootsie": The Cartoons of Ollie Harrington
- Bertie "Birdie" Brown: Badass Montana Moonshiner
- Colored Men Behind the Bar: A Brief Look at Some Early Bartenders
- Milking and Murder in St. Louis: Meet Jack's Nephew Lem Motlow
- Captain Clarence Webster: Hero and Booze Smuggler
- Black Temperance: Bedimmed and Bedizzied
- In the Clear: Tequila, Vodka and Gin
- Distilled Spirits: Two Men of Firsts from the Big Apple
- The White View on Blacks and the "Liquor Problem" from the Late 1890s
- Cognac: Bloodthirsty Black Men and the Unofficial Spirit of Black America
- Nigger Whiskey and Reconstruction
- The Black Bourbon Society
- Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple on the Drink
- A Quick Trip Up North: Canadian Whiskey
- The Colonial Period: Rum and the Slave Trade
- Malt Liquor: An Odyssey of Advertisement in Sight and Sound
- Colonel Elmer Lucille Allen: Pioneering Woman Chemist
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781467159517
- 1467159514
- OCLC:
- 1509189165
- Publisher Number:
- 90102712171
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