Cowdery, Charles K. Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey. Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014.
Temperance stigma and Catholic and Jewish entrepreneurial opportunity.
Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”.
Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”.
Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”
Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”.
Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”
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Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”.
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Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, Chapter 10, “How Catholics and Jews Saved American Whiskey,” opening sections “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” and “Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, What’s in a Name?”.
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Cowdery argues that as alcohol work became increasingly stigmatized among Protestants, Catholic and Jewish entrepreneurs entered opportunities in distilling, wholesaling, brand building, and related commerce. He illustrates the pattern through Isaac Wolfe Bernheim and other families while noting that religious minorities and recent immigrants were often attacked for their prominence.
Treat the celebratory chapter title as rhetoric. The underlying institutional pattern is useful but should not imply uniform motives or experiences.
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