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 Pittsburgh
Prohibition Pittsburgh
Prohibition in Columbus, Ohio
Prohibition in Columbus, Ohio
Baltimore Prohibition
Baltimore Prohibition

Prohibition Pittsburgh

9781467136624

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Bootlegging, bombs, murder, and more... all for the price of a drink. This is the history of Prohibition in Pittsburgh.


When you work hard, you play hard, and Pittsburgh is a hardworking city. So, when Prohibition hit the Steel City, it created a level of violence and corruption residents had never witnessed. Illegal producers ran stills in kitchens, basements, bathroom tubs, warehouses and even abandoned distilleries. War between gangs of bootleggers resulted in a number of murders and bombings that placed Pittsburgh on the same level as New York City and Chicago in criminal activity. John Bazzano ordered the killing of the Volpe brothers but did so without the permission of Mafia bosses; his battered body was later found on the street in Brooklyn. Author Richard Gazarik details the shady side of the Steel City during a tumultuous era.

Prohibition Pittsburgh

Prohibition in Columbus, Ohio

9781467137218

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The Prohibition era often conjures up images of Tommy guns and speakeasies, but prohibition in Columbus added up to more than a crime stat sheet. It continued to dramatically shape the city far beyond its conclusion in 1933. The story begins with the temperance agitators who fought for decades for the elimination of alcohol. It is also the story of the families who made the alcohol, along with the neighborhood they built and then rebuilt in the Noble Experiment's aftermath. Alex Tebben relates how both temperance groups and the brewers adapted to the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and the permanent mark it made on the city's heritage.
Prohibition in Columbus, Ohio

Baltimore Prohibition

9781625858429

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Explore the fasciniating history of Prohibition in one of the places where it was most defied-- Baltimore, Maryland.


There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.

Baltimore Prohibition