Manny Shwab and the George Dickel Company: Whisky, Power and Politics During Nashville's Gilded Age by Clay Shwab
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1476692777 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 22.92 MB
There was once a Tennessee whiskey that dwarfed Jack Daniel's, and a powerful man was behind it: V.E. "Manny" Shwab. Until now, virtually nothing has been written about either. Their story is one of a Jewish Alsatian immigrant's dream of finding community and prosperity in the New world; of smuggling during the Civil War; of the raging, sometimes fatal, battle against Prohibition; and of the wild side of rapidly growing Nashville during the 19th and early 20th centuries.