Books for the Mixologist in Your Life

The Manhattan. The Long Island Iced Tea. The Cape Codder. There’s a reason drinks are named for places – because every region puts a twist on their favorite cocktail. Our delicious cocktail books capture the tang of a well-mixed concoction, from coast to coast. Try California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees. Or sample the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, a sublime mix of history, spirits, and recipes. And our Prohibition titles are a mix of rum-running, moralizing and moonshine histories. Your cocktail aficionado will be both shaken and stirred by our collection of local licentiousness and libations.

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Prohibition in Bardstown

Prohibition in Atlanta:

North Georgia Moonshine:

Prohibition in Bardstown

9781467135603

$21.99

Some Bardstown, Kentucky residents argued for an alcohol ban as early as the mid-1800s despite the fact that whiskey and bourbon were local staples. When Prohibition finally arrived, independent and inventive residents secretly kept the city wet. A deacon once stored whiskey in a baptismal pool. Seventy-year-old Aunt Be-At Hurst allegedly made her homebrew out of her bathtub. Some locals even burned distillery warehouses to cover up thefts. Crime ran so rampant that revenue collector Robert H. Lucas threatened to have the governor summon the state militia. Join historians Dixie Hibbs and Doris Settles as they detail the history of Bardstown booze.

Prohibition in Atlanta:

9781626196063

$21.99

After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many consider flappers and gangsters the iconic images of the era, in reality, it was marked with temperance zealotry, blind tigers and white lightning. Georgia's protracted and intense battle changed the industrial and social landscapes of its capital city and unleashed a flood of illegal liquor that continually flowed in the wettest city in the South. Moonshine was the toast of the town from mill houses to the state capitol. The state eventually repealed prohibition, but the social, moral and legal repercussions still linger seventy years later. Join authors Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle as they recount the colorful history of Atlanta's struggle to freely enjoy a drink.