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

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-297) and index.