Research Catalog
The social history of bourbon
- Title
- The social history of bourbon / Gerald Carson.
- Author
- Carson, Gerald, 1899-1989.
- Publication
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-6624 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- First published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1963.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6624
- ISBN
- 9780813126562
- 0813126568
- OCLC
- 639159509
- Author
- Carson, Gerald, 1899-1989.
- Title
- The social history of bourbon / Gerald Carson.
- Imprint
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
- Edition
- Pbk. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6624