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.
Mike Veach identifies the book as a pioneering social history while warning that later research has corrected several origin stories and assumptions.
Mike Veach, foreword to The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 10–12 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
Mike Veach, foreword to The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 10–12 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
PDF sheet 12
PDF sheet 10
Veach, foreword to Carson, Social History of Bourbon, PDF sheets 10–12.
Foreword to the New Edition
2026-09-29: corrected opening-only locator to the chapter-level paraphrase range. Veach's PDF11 directly rejects the Kentucky flight story that Carson narrates on37. Foreword is a later interpretation, not independent validation of every replacement claim. Ready only for attributed representation of this source, not clearance of all historical claims.
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