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

by Christine Sismondo

Book Overview

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 an assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern.

In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019973495X
• ISBN13: 9780199734955
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"