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Big Shots
The Men Behind the Booze
By Baime, A. J.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-45120-980-1
- Publisher
- New American Library
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Reviewed on November 1, 2003
Liquor brims with history, and Baime pours it neatly into this fittingly flask-sized handbook for barflies. Written in the irreverent tone of Maxim magazine, in which the former senior editor published early musings on the topic, this raucous manual reads like an ode to a lad's drinking buddies: Johnnie Walker, Seagram, Smirnoff and the swashbuckling, hollow-legged pirate, Captain Morgan (who never produced a drop, but drank himself to death). The stories scan the globe and cover four centuries--from Prohibition-era Kentucky to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
