The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

★ 7.5•2022•1 Seasons•ANIME

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Divulges surprising origin stories of the American alcohol, gambling, sex, and tobacco industries and the ambitiously notorious entrepreneurs who built some of history's biggest fortunes on the nation's cravings.

Top Cast

James M. Reilly

August Busch

Delbert Hunt

Self - Narrator

Zach Meiser

Buck Duke

Bart Elliott

Julius Schmid

Barbara Hahn

Self - Author of Making Tobacco Bright

Sarah Milov

Self - Author of The Cigarette a Political History

Garrett Oliver

Self - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer

Colin Spoelman

Self - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian

Richard Zacks

Self - Author of Island of Vice

Norman Chad

Self - Sportswriter Washington Post

Carey Latimore

Self - Associate Prof. of History

Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela

Self - Associate Prof. of History

Jesse Dupree

Self - Entrepreneur

Maureen Ogle

Self - Author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer

Samara B. Davis

Fouder Black Bourbon Society

Episodes

Season:

1. Secrets & Sins

Jack Daniel pioneers American whiskey; Adolphus Busch creates an iconic beer; Buck Duke innovates the modern cigarette; Julius Schmid skirts the law selling his new condoms…all while the temperance movement rises to battle against them.

Aired: 6/12/2022

2. Empires Lost

One of the richest men in the world may lose his tobacco empire; alcohol titans fight for their lives against the growing threat of prohibition; New York City becomes ground zero in the battle to legalize contraception.