Clay Shwab

Manny Shwab and the George Dickel Company

Whisky, Power and Politics During Nashville's Gilded Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781476692777
• ISBN-10: 1476692777
• Artikelnr.: 70841008

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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