Bourbon and Bullets
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-428-8 (ISBN)
"I thought I’d seen every angle on the history of American whiskey. But John Tramazzo makes a compelling case for the role of soldiers, the military, and veterans in the story of America’s favorite spirit—and he wraps it up in a pretty good yarn."—Clay Risen, author of American Whiskey, Bourbon, and Rye: A Guide to the Nation's Favorite Spirit
Bourbon and Bullets delves into the lives and military careers of these whiskey distillers and tells the story of whiskey’s role on the battlefield and in the American military community.
American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered their courage, calmed their nerves, and treated their maladies. As a serious American whiskey drinker, John C. Tramazzo noticed how military service and whiskey went hand in hand during his service as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. In Bourbon and Bullets Tramazzo reveals the rich and dramatic connection between bourbon and military service in America.
Although others have discussed whiskey’s place in military history, Bourbon and Bullets explores the relationship between military service and some of the most notable whiskey distillers and executives working today. American servicemen Weller, Handy, Stagg, Van Winkle, and Bulleit all experienced combat before they became household names for American whiskey enthusiasts. In small towns and big cities across America, veterans of armed conflict in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan cook mash, operate stills, and push the booming industry to new heights.
John C. Tramazzo is an active duty Army officer and veteran of several deployments in support of the Global War on Terror. He is also an American whiskey enthusiast, Kentucky Colonel, and the founder of the popular blog bourbonscout.com. Fred Minnick, a former Army journalist in Iraq, has written widely about the spirits industry and is the author of Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey (Potomac Books, 2013).
Foreword by Fred Minnick
Introduction
1. Bourbon and Bullets
2. Red Likker
3. War and Whiskey Persist
4. George Washington
5. Evan and Isaac Shelby
6. The Weller Family
7. Thomas Hughes Handy
8. Paul L. Jones Jr.
9. George Thomas Stagg
10. Julian Proctor Van Winkle Jr.
11. Elmer Tandy Lee and James B. Johnson Jr.
12. Richard J. Newman
13. Thomas E. Bulleit Jr.
14. David Steven Pickerell
15. Veterans in Craft Whiskey
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Happy Hour
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Fred Minnick |
| Zusatzinfo | 28 photographs, 7 illustrations, 6 recipes, index |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64012-428-4 / 1640124284 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64012-428-8 / 9781640124288 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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