The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
2022•1 Seasons•3 Episodes•7.5•Ended
DocumentaryDrama
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.
Network
History
Origin
US
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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