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The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America

2022•83 min•1 season
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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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Top cast

James M. Reilly

James M. Reilly

August Busch

Delbert Hunt

Self - Narrator

Zach Meiser

Zach Meiser

Buck Duke

Bart Elliott

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

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