America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies, and grog shops / Christine Sismondo.
2011
GT3803 .S57 2011eb
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Title
America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies, and grog shops / Christine Sismondo.
Author
ISBN
9780199753161 (electronic bk.)
0199753164 (electronic bk.)
9780199734955 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
019973495X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0199753164 (electronic bk.)
9780199734955 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
019973495X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
GT3803 .S57 2011eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)732051960
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 Be.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-297) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1: A pilgrim walks into a bar
A dissenter walks into a bar
A rebel walks into the back room of a bar
A revolutionary walks into a bar
A Federalist walks into a bar
2: Keeping tabs
The political machine invades a bar
The crusader walks into a bar
The radicals take over a bar
The machine politician gets behind the bar
Carry nation wields a hatchet in a bar
3: A woman walks into a speakeasy
A French heel is hooked around a bar's brass rail
Joe McCarthy storms into a bar
Change strolls into the bar.
A dissenter walks into a bar
A rebel walks into the back room of a bar
A revolutionary walks into a bar
A Federalist walks into a bar
2: Keeping tabs
The political machine invades a bar
The crusader walks into a bar
The radicals take over a bar
The machine politician gets behind the bar
Carry nation wields a hatchet in a bar
3: A woman walks into a speakeasy
A French heel is hooked around a bar's brass rail
Joe McCarthy storms into a bar
Change strolls into the bar.
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Print version: Sismondo, Christine. America walks into a bar. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
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