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2) Manny Shwab and the George Dickel company: whisky, power and politics during Nashville's gilded age
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"There was once a Tennessee whiskey that dwarfed Jack Daniel's, and a powerful man 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...