In other words, I shall not dwell on them in detail. Besides, America’s greatest innovation in the art of compounding Punch was to greatly extend James Ashley’s work in applying the technologies of miniaturization and just-in-time production to the process, turning it from a large-bore social dri...
INTRODUCTION My introduction to Jerry Thomas wasn’t nearly as dramatic as Dale’s—characteristically, I read about him in a book, one or another of the various histories of American lowlife Herbert Asbury published in the 1920s and ’30s. It was the early 1990s, and I was in graduate school, keepin...