The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

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  E1

  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.

  2022-06-12
  Mark watched
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  E2

  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.

  2022-06-19
  Mark watched
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  E3

  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.

  2022-06-26
  Mark watched

Top 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