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.

Documentary Drama

James M. Reilly

(August Busch)

Zachary Meiser

(Buck Duke)

Delbert Hunt

(Self - Narrator)

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)