Author Talk: “Huzza!” with Timothy Symington
Raising a glass to toast someone at a wedding or birthday dinner is a familiar and usually informal occurrence, but at one time it was a carefully orchestrated ritual. Toasts were planned, revised, given at an event, and then printed in newspapers. During the tumultuous years of the nation’s founding, toasts were used to praise …

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