Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit

Few products figure as prominently or as intimately in the American experience as bourbon whiskey, and with good reason: bourbon is the American experience, distilled, aged, and sealed in a bottle. Its primary ingredient was discovered by Christopher Columbus, and its recipe was perfected on the Western frontier. Simply stated, bourbon is the American spirit, through and through.

In BOURBON writer Dane Huckelbridge goes back over 300 years to the backwoods of Appalachia, tracking the origins of the Kentucky whiskey up through the international multi-billion dollar industry it’s become today. Treating bourbon as a lens for better understanding the elusive character of the nation that created it, Huckelbridge gives the spirit the starring role in American history it so richly deserves.