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The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet
ISBN: 9780813545929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Spirits are all the rage today. Two-thirds of Americans drink, whether they enjoy higher priced call brands or more moderately priced favorites. From fine dining and piano bars to baseball games and backyard barbeques, drinks are part of every social occasion.
In The Prohibition Hangover, Garrett Peck explores the often-contradictory social history of alcohol in America, from the end of Prohibition in 1933 to the twenty-first century. For Peck, Repeal left American society wondering whether alcohol was a consumer product or a controlled substance, an accepted staple of social... Spirits are all the rage today. Two-thirds of Americans drink, whether they enjoy higher priced call brands or more moderately priced favorites. From ...
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178,73 zł |
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The Potomac River: A History & Guide
ISBN: 9781609496005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,21 zł |
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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet
ISBN: 9781540213853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk,...
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother Georg...
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141,41 zł |
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Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Weren't
ISBN: 9781540205827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,26 zł |
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Prohibition in Washington, D.C.:: How Dry We Weren't
ISBN: 9781609492366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1929, it was estimated that every week bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits into Washington, D.C.'s three thousand speakeasies. H.L. Mencken called it the thirteen awful years, "? though it was sixteen for the District. Nevertheless, the bathtub gin, swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. Author Garrett Peck crafts a rollicking history brimming with stories of vice, topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Join Peck as he explores an underground city ruled not by...
In 1929, it was estimated that every week bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine and other spirits into Washington, D.C...
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97,21 zł |
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The Potomac River: A History & Guide
ISBN: 9781540221186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,26 zł |
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The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry
ISBN: 9781540232984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,26 zł |
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Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9781540209979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form of light but flavorful lagers. Brewer barons like Christian Heurich and Albert Carry dominated the taps of city saloons until production ground to a halt with the dry days of Prohibition. Only Heurich survived, and...
Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced ...
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159,10 zł |
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Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade
ISBN: 9780807170380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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222,79 zł |
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