The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
★ 7.5·2022·1 seasons · 3 episodes·Series
DocumentaryDrama
Synopsis
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
Season 11
Secrets & SinsJack 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.2
Empires LostOne 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.3
Sin CitiesThe 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.
Secrets & SinsJack 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.2Empires LostOne 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.3Sin CitiesThe 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.Cast
Delbert HuntSelf - Narrator
Barbara HahnSelf - Author of Making Tobacco Bright
Sarah MilovSelf - Author of The Cigarette a Political History
Garrett OliverSelf - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer
Colin SpoelmanSelf - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian
Richard ZacksSelf - Author of Island of Vice
Carey LatimoreSelf - Associate Prof. of History
Natalia Mehlman-PetrzelaSelf - Associate Prof. of History
