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Christine Sismondo - America Walks Into A Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
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AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR. In an age when everything from tapioca to quilting has been touted as an overlooked agent that has helped shape history, it’s tempting to soft-sell the importance of the American bar. Like its close cousins, the coffee-houses of Paris and London, however, the bar was where the public proved itself—often with less sobriety—capable of economic and political self-determination.
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Christine Sismondo - America Walks Into A Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
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AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR:. A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops. Oxford University Press 2011 Hardcover. 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. As the cockpit of organized crime, politics, and everyday social life, the bar has remained vital- and controversial- down to the present. A Shaken and Stirred History. McArthur and Co 2005 Hardcover.
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July 3, 2011. CBC The Sunday Edition - link to interview. What they're saying about AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR:. A robust homage to the history and proliferation of bars and their vast and often overlooked cultural significance. Author of STEEL DRIVIN’ MAN: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Bartenders are lucky that writers like you, Jeff Berry, Dave Wondrich and Wayne Curtis write about us. Gives us plenty to study after college! Of New York's famed bar, PDT and. Ldquo;…take a ref...
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AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR:. A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops. Oxford University Press - 2011 - Hardcover. The first book to offer the full story of bars and taverns in America. Independent booksellers via IndieBound. A robust homage to the history and proliferation of bars and their vast and often overlooked cultural significance. Of New York's famed bar, PDT and. With fast-paced narration and lively characters, she carries the story through the twentieth century and b...
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AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR:. A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops. Oxford University Press 2011 Hardcover. 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. As the cockpit of organized crime, politics, and everyday social life, the bar has remained vital- and controversial- down to the present. A Shaken and Stirred History. McArthur and Co 2005 Hardcover.
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Christine Sismondo - America Walks Into A Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
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Christine Sismondo is a writer, teacher and barfly. When not teaching literature at York University, she is tracking down the city’s best drinks and the bars in which they’re served for her columns in ROB Magazine, The Grid and Winefox. Sismondo hails from the restaurant industry, where she tended bar for a decade or so. In an attempt to escape the industry, she wrote “Mondo Cocktail: A Shaken and Stirred History” which, ironically, only got her more deeply entrenched.
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June 18, 6:30 PM. Toronto Wine and Spirit Festival, Toronto. June 20, 7:00 PM. Beer Cocktails with Mirella Amato at Burger Bar, Toronto. June 21, 8:00 PM. TINARS presents America Walks into a Bar at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. July 13, 12:00 PM. 92Y Tribeca, New York. July 13, 7:00 PM. Harvard Club, New York (lecture and reception). July 14, 6:30 PM. Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York. July 21, 3:00 PM. The Bad Boys of Bars with James Waller at Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans, LA. Aug 8 (time TBA).
