Blood and Whiskey - Peter Krass

Blood and Whiskey

The Life and Times of Jack Daniel

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2004
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-27392-9 (ISBN)
34,24 inkl. MwSt
The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey

Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair and the Liege International Exposition in Belgium. Blood and Whiskey captures Daniel's indomitable rise in the rough-edged world of the nineteenth-century whiskey trade-and shows how his commitment to quality (his whiskey was always charcoal-filtered) and his flair for marketing and packaging (he launched his distinctive square bottle in 189-5) helped create one of America's most venerable and recognizable brands.

PETER KRASS is the author of Carnegie (Wiley), cited by Barron's as the "definitive" biography and selected by Library Journal as one of the best biography/business books of 2002. His other books include The Book of Business Wisdom, The Book of Leadership Wisdom, and The Book of Investing Wisdom, all available from Wiley.

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 The Cursed Child 7

2 Everything Gone but the Dirt 25

3 Legend of the Boy Distiller 42

4 The Nomad 64

5 Reunion and Challenge 75

6 A Rebellion against the Government 92

7 Identity Crisis 107

8 Seizing the Legendary Hollow 120

9 Taking On Nashville 136

10 Big Man, Lonely Man 155

11 Brand Magic 166

12 Enemies 178

13 Reborn 191

14 The Final Battle 204

Epilogue Lem’s Trials 215

Afterword The Making of a Legend 227

Notes 235

Bibliography 257

Index 261

 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.5.2004
Zusatzinfo Photos: 15 B&W, 0 Color
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 234 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Getränke
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 0-471-27392-9 / 0471273929
ISBN-13 978-0-471-27392-9 / 9780471273929
Zustand Neuware
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