The social history of bourbon /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carson, Gerald, 1899-1989
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Series:Distilling, fermenting, and brewing collection
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Table of Contents:
  • Drinks and drinking in early America
  • Watermelon armies and whiskey boys
  • Bourbon's country cousin
  • The first true bourbon
  • A name with a melody all its own : Kentucky
  • The dark age of American drinking
  • Whiskey in the Civil War
  • Golden years of the bourbon aristocracy
  • Drinking down the national debt
  • Moonshine and honeysuckle
  • The great whiskey steal
  • The Highwine Trust
  • Westward the jug of empire took its way
  • A sofa with every case
  • But, what is whiskey?
  • Whiskey fun and folklore
  • The swinging door
  • The zenith of man's pleasure
  • Bourbon : from 1920 to the day before yesterday.