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America Walks into a Bar - A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops (Paperback)
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America Walks into a Bar - A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops (Paperback)
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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 Beere." With fast-paced narration and lively characters,
she carries the story through the twentieth century and beyond,
from repeated struggles over licensing and Sunday liquor sales,
from the Whiskey Rebellion to the temperance movement, from
attempts to ban "treating" to Prohibition and repeal. As the
cockpit of organized crime, politics, and everyday social life, the
bar has remained vital-and controversial-down to the present. In
2006, when the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act was
passed, a rider excluded bars from applying for aid or tax breaks
on the grounds that they contributed nothing to the community.
Sismondo proves otherwise: the bar has contributed everything to
the American story. In this heady cocktail of agile prose and
telling anecdotes, Sismondo offers a resounding toast to taprooms,
taverns, saloons, speakeasies, and the local hangout where
everybody knows your name.
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