The creators of Budweiser and Michelob beers, the Anheuser-Busch company is one of the wealthiest, most colorful, and enduring family dynasties in the history of American commerce. In Bitter Brew, journalist William Knoedelseder tells the often scandalous saga of the rise and fall of the dysfunctional Busch family -- a tale of prosperity, profligacy, hubris, and the dark consequences of success that spans three centuries, from the open salvos of the Civil War to the present day.
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