Densely packed ... A textured account that details Cuervo’s relationships with rival tequila producers, and his efforts to survive in a politically unstable era.
A versatile and industrious nonfiction writer whose output includes books on such subjects as Walt Whitman and the American meat industry ... Tequila Warsis thus not, strictly, a biography of Cuervo. It also tells the story of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910 and raged for a decade between a bewildering cocktail of forces ... Mexico should be grateful to Mr. Genoways for bringing [Cuervo] back from the dead.
