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A heartfelt, hilarious ode to beer, baseball and business.Michael London, Academy Award-nominated producer of Sideways Stretching across three centuries, from the start of the Civil War through Prohibition to today, Bitter Brew is the engrossing, often scandalous saga of one of the wealthiest and most colorful dynasties in American commerce: the Busch family of St. Louis, Missouri, founders of the legendary Anheuser-Busch company. Critically acclaimed journalist William Knoedelseder tells the story of how the Busch patriarchs turned a small brewery into a multi-billion dollar international corporation and transformed their product, Budweiser, into the iconic King of Beers. He paints a fascinating portrait of immense wealth and power accompanied by scandal, heartbreak, tragedy, and untimely death. A cautionary tale of immense prosperity, hubris, and loss, it is also and a revealing chronicle of American progress and decline over the past 150 years. Bitter Brew deftly chronicles the contentious succession of kings in a uniquely American dynasty. Youll never crack open a six again without thinking of this book.John Sayles, director of Eight Men Out and author of A Moment in the Sun
