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The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 by Perry Duis

The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

Perry Duis

416 pages 1983

2 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in "wide open" Chicago and tightly c...

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