The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 3
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.
Episodes(3)
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.
Air Date : 2022-06-12
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.
Air Date : 2022-06-19
3. Sin Cities
The invention of the luxury resort casino helps birth Sin City; a Harlem woman goes to war for what will become the state lottery system; an alluring magazine like no other is launched; one of the most famous cigarette brands in history is created.
Air Date : 2022-06-26
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)
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