My WorksThe Joy of Drinking
A brief but merry overview of human civilization since the world-wide discovery of fermentation some 10,000 years ago. "Holland has a light, winsome touch and is always funny." - New York Times "a lighthearted history of humanity's long romance with strong liquids" - The Washington Post "A breezy, whimsical style, perfectly suited to her swift romp across the histories and cultures of alcohol down through the ages" - Publisher's Weekly "...grows from a hilarious ancient history lesson into a compulsively readable mini-mosaic of human and our various fermented tipples as well as our paroxysms of moral indignation over these same tipples... peppered with quiet humor, science, and historical fac, often in the same sentence." - Los Angeles Times "Mixing fact, fable,anecdote, and personal opinion with irresistible panache, cultural historian Barbara Holland's The Joy of Drinking (Bloomshury) distills thousand of years of hukandkind's lusty relationship with alcohol... into a slim, sparkling history that covers all manner of blithe spirits..." -Elle The Joy of Drinking
How fermentation and distilling have cheered the human race and encouraged civilization and social life around the world, from the first fermented peach to the last vodkatini. When All the World Was Young
Bloomsbury 2005 Family life back when Fathers were kings, and politics, war both hot and cold, school, sex, gender, and first jobs a long time ago. "Compelling, both touching and funny." The New York Times "A wise, funny, haunting, and thoroughly grown-up book. Rings entirely true." Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post. "Charming." Booklist "Humor and honesty...A delight." Publishers Weekly Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Mischief, Morals, & Malarkey from George W. to George W.
Permanent Press, 2003; paperback Penguin 2004 * A Book Sense Top 10 Selection. “Acerb wit…Along with the laughs, often encourages shrewd and touching empathy with moments of the past.” -Washington Post “It reveals, among many other amazing facts, that almost all our chief executives were just as weird as Richard Nixon.” -Dave Barry They Went Whistling - Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
Pantheon, 2002 “The title…comes from a proverb, ‘A whistling woman and a crowing hen, both will come to no good end.’ Holland’s portraits of women who explore realms usually left to men are honest and funny and sometimes not very flattering. But they do spark the imagination." --USA Today Gentlemen’s Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk.
Bloomsbury, 2003 “A splendid account… enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous… lively humor and sparkling prose.” -Wall Street Journal “A high-spirited history of the art…cheerfully, airily describes the many forms the duel has taken over the centuries…” -Los Angeles Times “..a nifty little book….compulsively interesting…” -Fort Worth Star-Telegram Endangered Pleasures:In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences
Little, Brown, 1995; Harper Perennial, 2000 "Shamelessly advocates all the pleasures that have fallen into low repute since modern Puritanism cast its pall." - Russell Baker, New York Times |
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