The social history of bourbon
By: Gerald Carson
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813126562
Subjects: Whiskey; History
Notes: First published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1963.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Drinks and drinking in early America; title: Watermelon armies and whiskey boys; title: Bourbon's country cousin; title: The first true bourbon; title: A name with a melody all its own : Kentucky; title: The dark age of American drinking; title: Whiskey in the Civil War; title: Golden years of the bourbon aristocracy; title: Drinking down the national debt; title: Moonshine and honeysuckle; title: The great whiskey steal; title: The Highwine Trust; title: Westward the jug of empire took its way; title: A sofa with every case; title: But, what is whiskey?; title: Whiskey fun and folklore; title: The swinging door; title: The zenith of man's pleasure; title: Bourbon : from 1920 to the day before yesterday.