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America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
✍️ Sismondo, Christine
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🏛 Oxford University Press
📅 2011
📔 Hardcover
ISBN: 9780199734955
📝 Description: America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
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.
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