Fred Minnick. Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life. Sourcebooks, 2026.
The author argues, with a counterfactual that requires qualification, that deregulation enabled later product innovations.
Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheet 229.
Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheet 229.
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Minnick, Bottom Shelf, PDF sheet 229.
Deregulation as a necessary condition for later innovation is Minnick's counterfactual, not a demonstrated causal result or proof of the first single-barrel product.
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Fred Minnick, Bottom Shelf: How a Forgotten Brand of Bourbon Saved One Man’s Life (Sourcebooks, 2026), PDF sheet 229.
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The author argues, with a counterfactual that requires qualification, that deregulation enabled later product innovations.
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Deregulation as a necessary condition for later innovation is Minnick's counterfactual, not a demonstrated causal result or proof of the first single-barrel product.
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