America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies, and grog shops / Christine Sismondo.

Title: 
America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies, and grog shops / Christine Sismondo.

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Author/Artist: 
Sismondo, Christine.
Publisher: 
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description: 
xv, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Bars (Drinking establishments) United States History.
Drinking customs United States History.
Bib ID: 
126164
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
GT3803.S57 2011z
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Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-297) and index.
Contents: 
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 --
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 --
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.
ISBN: 
9780199734955 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : $24.95
019973495X (hardcover : acid-free paper)