Review: Readable, wonderful Southern history
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2013
"Bootlegger Haze" is a highly well-written and very readable history of African-Americans and their often sad history in the American South in those fifty years following the Civil War. Guaranteed, it will hook all readers as it tells the story of young Buford Tee who,in 1895, flees New Orleans with his mulatto mother Marie-Claire and grows up in his grandfather August's home in Ellisville, Mississippi.The history of whiskey-making in the South is mingled in the storyline along with the recounting of the violence that surrounded African-Americans back then.An extremely useful glossary and several delightful recipes are located at the beginning of "Boolegger Haze", a story no one should skip for it tells a story all should hear.