{"product_id":"blood-and-whiskey-9780471273929","title":"Blood and Whiskey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author traces the Daniel family lineage from Scotland and Ireland to rural Tennessee, and Jasper “Jack” Newton Daniel’s rise from hardscrabble youth to a dandy gent with a love of horses, fine clothes and women, a colleague of J.P. Morgan’s and one of the most famous spirits producers in the world. Orphaned at 15, Jack discovered a whiskey still on the property of his longtime neighbor and new guardian, Dan Call, and his interest in distilling booze was born. Krass (\u003ci\u003eCarnegie\u003c\/i\u003e) details the early business partnership between Call and Daniel and their eventual split, as Call forces himself to choose between preaching and making whiskey. “One Call [descendant] wished he’d given up preaching instead because the Jack Daniel Distillery was eventually worth tens of millions of dollars,” Krass writes. While Krass’s research is ample, the book often gets bogged down in historical minutiae, and at times the reader wishes for a more charismatic star of the show than the somewhat dour Daniel. But witnessing the maturation of his namesake company—not to mention the maturation of the U.S. as it confronts slavery, the Civil War and the temperance movement—is engrossing. Fans of the whiskey will be happy to hear the alleged real story behind the Old No. 7 that adorns each bottle, and anyone can appreciate the classic American characters sprinkled throughout the text, including the richly monikered Eph Grizzard, Beauregard Beam and Lemuel Motlow. \u003ci\u003eAgent, Ed Knappman. (May)\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, April 12\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, 2004)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Cursed Child 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Everything Gone but the Dirt 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Legend of the Boy Distiller 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Nomad 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Reunion and Challenge 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Rebellion against the Government 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Identity Crisis 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Seizing the Legendary Hollow 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Taking On Nashville 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Big Man, Lonely Man 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Brand Magic 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Enemies 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Reborn 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Final Battle 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue \u003ci\u003eLem’s Trials \u003c\/i\u003e215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword The Making of a Legend 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864646332759,"sku":"9780471273929","price":23.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780471273929.jpg?v=1722272880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-and-whiskey-9780471273929","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}