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The Social History of Bourbon, an unhurried account of our star-spangled American drink. By Gerald Carson. Illustrated.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TP605 .C3 1963
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carson, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bourbon whiskey.
- Whiskey.
- whiskeys (carriages).
- whiskey (liquor).
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, [4], 280, [4] pages, [16] pages of plates illustrations, portraits 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, [1963]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket with protective transparent cover retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carson, Gerald. Social history of bourbon.
- OCLC:
- 1299652
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