Table of Contents
Foreword to the New Edition xi
Acknowledgments xv
Preface xix
1 Drinks and Drinking in Early America 1
2 Watermelon Armies and Whiskey Boys 11
3 Bourbon's Country Cousin 24
4 The First True Bourbon 33
5 A Name with a Melody all its Own-Kentucky 50
6 The Dark Age of American Drinking 62
7 Whiskey in the Civil War 71
8 Golden Years of the Bourbon Aristocracy 81
9 Drinking Down the National Debt 94
10 Moonshine and Honeysuckle 102
11 The Great Whiskey Steal 114
12 The Highwine Trust 128
13 Westward the Jug of Empire Took its Way 137
14 A Sofa with Every Case 149
15 But-What is Whiskey? 163
16 Whiskey Fun and Folklore 174
17 The Swinging Door 187
18 The Zenith of Man's Pleasure 207
19 Bourbon: From 1920 to the Day Before Yesterday 218
Chronology 231
Glossary 235
Chapter Notes 239
Index 271
