Carson, Gerald. The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink. Foreword by Mike Veach. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Originally published 1963.
Post–Civil War hospitality, literary association, advertising, political ritual, and the mint julep helped elevate bourbon from commodity to a symbol of American refinement.
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 215–224 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 215–224 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
PDF sheet 224
PDF sheet 215
Carson, Social History of Bourbon, PDF sheets 215–224.
Chapter 18 — The Zenith of Man’s Pleasure
2026-09-29: corrected opening-only locator to the chapter-level paraphrase range. Reject centenarian anecdotes as medical evidence215–216. Twain club-cellar story218 is expressly unverified. Julep rhetoric is cultural evidence. Ready only for attributed representation of this source, not clearance of all historical claims.
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