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The Backwash Squeeze
What do the Alcatraz coup, the cannibal squeeze, and the journalist leads all have in common? Answer: they are all techniques in the card game bridge. In the 1930s, bridge was even bigger than baseball. In The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats, Edward McPherson recounts the game’s history and his attempts to master it in time for the North American Bridge Championships.
The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats is available for purchase at amazon.com
Edward McPherson will be speaking and signing books
Monday, August 13 at 7pm
McNally Robinson
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette and Mulberry)
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This may come as a terrible shock to you, Mr. Leonard, but there are some people who have no idea what the game of bridge is all about. You have not once during this interview asked your guest what are the rules and goals of the game are. Excuse me and my plebian mentality.
I am 25 now, but learned to play Bridge from my public school in Nebraska at the age of 10. I too became addicted and played Honeymoon Bridge with my dad for hours. I haven’t played for years, but perhaps it is time to start again…Thanks for the great story!
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