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The City Tavern Papers: Philadelphia and the Conversations That Forged a Nation

The City Tavern Papers: Philadelphia and the Conversations That Forged a Nation

Hamele, Scott
Hamele, Scott

Paperback

Series: Back Rooms That Shaped America, Book 2

Colonial Period (1600-1775)Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN13: 9798246164143
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Two of the Back Rooms That Shaped America. Set in Revolutionary Philadelphia from 1774 to 1789, City Tavern is more than a public house. It is a pressure valve for a nation still being invented. Innkeeper Daniel Smith builds a period-plausible privacy system of coded bookings, controlled servants, and shadow exits to protect the most dangerous commodity in America: conversation. As delegates drift through with muddy boots, sharp tempers, and fragile reputations, the tavern becomes the unofficial room where alliances are tested, phrases are weighed, and timing can mean survival. But secrecy costs coin, and coin invites compromise. A polished civic powerbroker, a watchful woman who refuses to be decoration, and an enslaved man who hears liberty discussed while carrying the tray all navigate the same risk: being overheard. In back rooms, the republic takes its first breath.

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