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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Kathryn Smith
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A bite-size taste of history each day based on the diaries of ordinary people of the 1920s-1940s, plus book reviews, economic commentary, and an occasional vintage cocktail recipe to wash it all down.

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    Author of biographies, history mystery series and two books on Prohibition, "Baptists and Bootleggers" and "Methodists and Moonshiners," both with cocktail recipes.

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