Contents

Preface

1.  Farmer Distillers and the Whiskey Rebellion

2.  The Origin of Bourbon Whiskey

3.  The Industrial Revolution and the Distilling Industry

4.  Distillers and Rectifiers

5.  Taxation and Regulation

6.  Prohibition and the Bourbon Industry

7.  The End of Prohibition and the Second World War

8.  Boom and Then Bust

9.  Into the Twenty-first Century

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index