Signed Copies of The Bourbon King for the Holidays
From his base in Cincinnati, the whiskey baron bought Kentucky distilleries and grew a national network that enabled other Prohibition criminal masterminds, like Al Capone and Arnold Rothstein, to thrive. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon . . . The tale of George Remus is a grand spectacle and a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition. Yes, Congress gave teeth to Prohibition in October 1919, but the law didn’t stop George Remus from amassing a fortune that would be worth billions of dollars today.
As one Jazz Age journalist put it:
“Remus was to bootlegging what Rockefeller was to oil.”
Cultural historian and biographer Bob Batchelor breathes life into the largest bootlegging operation in America—greater than that of Al Capone—and a man considered the best criminal defense lawyer of his era. Remus bought an empire of distilleries on Kentucky’s “Bourbon Trail” and used his other profession, as a pharmacist, to profit off legal loopholes. He spent millions bribing officials in the Harding Administration, and he created a roaring, Gatsby-like lifestyle that epitomized the Jazz Age.
That is, before he came crashing down in one of the most sensational true crime murder cases in American history: a cheating wife, the G-man who seduced her and put Remus in jail, and the plunder of a Bourbon Empire. Remus murdered his wife in cold-blood and then shocked a nation winning his freedom based on a condition he invented—temporary maniacal insanity.
For a limited time, readers can purchase signed and personalized copies of The Bourbon King in time for the holidays at www.bobbatchelor.com/store
