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."

Cast

James M. Reilly

as August Busch

Delbert Hunt

as Self - Narrator

Zach Meiser

as Buck Duke

Bart Elliott

as Julius Schmid

Barbara Hahn

as Self - Author of Making Tobacco Bright

Sarah Milov

as Self - Author of The Cigarette a Political History

Garrett Oliver

as Self - Editor of The Oxford Companion of Beer

Colin Spoelman

as Self - Master Distiller / Whiskey Historian

Richard Zacks

as Self - Author of Island of Vice

Norman Chad

as Self - Sportswriter Washington Post

Carey Latimore

as Self - Associate Prof. of History

Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela

as Self - Associate Prof. of History

Jesse Dupree

as Self - Entrepreneur

Maureen Ogle

as Self - Author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer

Samara B. Davis

as Fouder Black Bourbon Society

Crew

Brian Burstein

Writer

Natasha Kermani

Director