There was once a Tennessee whiskey that dwarfed Jack Daniel's, and a powerful man was behind it: V.E. "Manny" Shwab. Until now, virtually nothing has been written about either. Their story is one of a Jewish Alsatian immigrant's dream of finding community and prosperity in the New world; of smuggling during the Civil War; of the raging, sometimes fatal, battle against Prohibition; and of the wild side of rapidly growing Nashville during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
"Manny" Shwab was a Tennessean known as the "owner" of Tennessee politics, and--because of his George Dickel company, saloons, and Cascade Whisky--the "debaucherer of more young men than anyone else in the state." He was also one of Tennesee's richest and most powerful men for four decades. This is the first full-length biography of V. E. Shwab, written by his great-grandson, and also the first complete history of the George Dickel company.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
70 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-9277-7 (9781476692777)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Clay Shwab taught business management, senior thesis, and management in literature at Maryville College for 10 years after a business career at Whittle Communications, Snyder Communications and Edison Schools. He lives in Maryville, Tennessee.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ridley Wills II
Foreword by Kay Baker Gaston
Preface
Introduction
?1.?Abraham, 1841-1857
?2.?Knoxville's First Jewish Bride; Knoxville's First Jewish Divorce
?3.?Parson Brownlow versus A. Schwab & Co.
?4.?Civil War
?5.?George A. Dickel & Co.
?6.?The Growing Temperance Movement
?7.?The Saga of Bell Nance
?8.?1881-1889
?9.?Cascade Hollow and the Silver Dollar Saloon
10.?Diversification and Family
11.?Temperance and Law Enforcement: Captain Clack
12.?The Tennessee Election, 1894
13.?George Augustus Dickel, 1818-1894
14.?Siblings
15.?1897-1898
16.?Full Ownership of the Cascade Hollow Distillery
17.?1900-1905
18.?The Southern Electric Company and "A Harmless Shooting Affair"
19.?The Killing of a Senator on Union Street
20.?1909: The Largest Federal Seizure in History
21.?Distilling, Prohibition, and Shifting Plans
22.?That Reif Letter: Legislators Flee to Alabama
23.?Manny and Boss Crump: Liquor by the Drink
24.?Nashville's Largest Office Buildings: Dueling Newspapers
25.?The Final Game: U.S. Supreme Court: Shwab v. Doyle
Epilogue
Appendix
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
