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When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he do so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his protection of New Orleans up against the United kingdom in 1815, he fulfilled Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted along with his accomplices to handle a certain assassination, they collected in Surratt Tavern. In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the abundant and fascinating background of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England, exhibiting how even the Puritans valued "a good Beere". With fast-paced narration and energetic characters, she holds the storyplot through the twentieth century and beyond, from repeated challenges over licensing and Weekend liquor sales, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the temperance movements, from makes an attempt to ban "treating" to Prohibition and repeal. As the cockpit of arranged offense, politics, and day-to-day social life, the pub has remained essential - and controversial - right down to the present. In 2006, when the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Tax Relief Function was approved, a rider excluded pubs from trying to get aid or duty breaks on the lands that they added nothing to the community. Sismondo proves otherwise: the pub has added everything to the American history. In such a heady cocktail of agile prose and showing anecdotes, Sismondo offers a resounding toast to taprooms, taverns, saloons, speakeasies, and the neighborhood hangout where everybody recognizes your name.
