The Old-Time Saloon : Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History - George Ade

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The Old-Time Saloon

Name: The Old-Time Saloon
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Price: 50.75 AUD

Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History

By: George Ade, Bill Savage (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 16 December 2016 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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18.47 x 12.75 x 1.27

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George Ade (1866-1944) was a prolific journalist/wit/playwright from Indiana whose Fables in Slang were syndicated nationally and produced as movies. This little book should amuse fans of early twentieth-century American humor and anyone who, as they raise a glass to pre-Prohibition traditions, wants to know more about them. Written in 1931 (towards the end of Prohibition, over in 1933) the book is a work of propaganda masquerading as ?just history"; it is also an exercise in nostalgia: an ode to the men's club of yore, when beer was a nickel and the sardines were free. Our reprint, with an Introduction and Notes by ex-bartender and historian Bill Savage, will be a facsimile of the first edition, including twelve old-time illustrations.

Industry Reviews

"[One of the] 'Books we can't wait to read: The back half of 2016 edition.' . . . In the early twentieth century, Ade was one of the funniest newspapermen in Chicago. In The Old-Time Saloon, originally published in the depths of Prohibition, he looks back with great nostalgia on the glory days of the nineteenth-century saloon."--Aimee Levitt and Tal Rosenberg "Chicago Reader"
"Ade was an American humorist who wrote literature for daily newspapers, back when such a thing could be imagined. He wrote vividly about the middle of the country when it was up-and-coming, expectedly dowdy and unexpectedly modern--he stands right between Booth Tarkington and Ring Lardner. And Ade did more for capitalization than anybody since Swift. . . . He was poet laureate of the live ones, and a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bullwinkle."--Luc Sante "HiLobrow"
"Do you have a favorite bar? Perhaps a tavern? Maybe a lounge with some cozy comforts? Humans have gathered close for a libation or three for millennia and many wonderful conversations have ensued as a result. George Ade, noted Chicago journalist, wrote about his own experiences with such gathering places in his 1931 book The Old-Time Saloon. Recently, the University of Chicago Press reissued this delightful tome with thoughtful annotations from Chicago's own Bill Savage."--Max Grinnell "The Urbanologist"

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