
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
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.
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James M. Reilly
August Busch · 3 eps
Delbert Hunt
Self - Narrator · 3 eps

Zach Meiser
Buck Duke · 3 eps

Bart Elliott
Julius Schmid · 3 eps
Barbara Hahn
Self - Author of Making Tobacco Bright · 3 eps
Sarah Milov
Self - Author of The Cigarette a Political History · 3 eps
Garrett Oliver
Self - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer · 3 eps
Colin Spoelman
Self - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian · 3 eps
Richard Zacks
Self - Author of Island of Vice · 3 eps

Norman Chad
Self - Sportswriter Washington Post · 3 eps
Carey Latimore
Self - Associate Prof. of History · 3 eps

Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela
Self - Associate Prof. of History · 3 eps

Jesse Dupree
Self - Entrepreneur · 3 eps
Maureen Ogle
Self - Author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer · 3 eps
Samara B. Davis
Fouder Black Bourbon Society · 3 eps

Adam Harper
Adolphus Busch · 3 eps
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