America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops by Christine Sismondo, Christine Sismondo
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops

Christine Sismondo, Christine Sismondo

America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops

Christine Sismondo, Christine Sismondo

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 plott...

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