Corpus role
Dennis J. Pogue is the author of the “Washington, George” entry in the uploaded T–Z extract of The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails.
Authority and use
The entry is a compact tertiary historical synthesis. It is especially valuable because it points to the Papers of George Washington and Pogue’s specialist study Founding Spirits. In this knowledge system, it supports a qualified commercial-enterprise claim and defines the next primary-source verification route.
Verification
Identity, entry heading, and authorship were verified at LOCAL-077, PDF sheet 91.