The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

Overview

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

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Delbert Hunt

Self - Narrator

Zach Meiser

Buck Duke

Bart Elliott

Julius Schmid

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Barbara Hahn

Self - Author of Making Tobacco Bright

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Sarah Milov

Self - Author of The Cigarette a Political History

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Garrett Oliver

Self - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer

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Colin Spoelman

Self - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian

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Richard Zacks

Self - Author of Island of Vice

Norman Chad

Self - Sportswriter Washington Post

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Carey Latimore

Self - Associate Prof. of History

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Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela

Self - Associate Prof. of History

Jesse Dupree

Self - Entrepreneur

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Maureen Ogle

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

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Samara B. Davis

Fouder Black Bourbon Society

Adam Harper

Adolphus Busch

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