This Bud’s for you..The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch
March 14th, 2014

Few empires exemplify this better than the history of Anheuser-Busch. From its Germanic roots in St. Louis, it’s a story of all that is American culture, good and bad. Ambition, philandering divorce, substance abuse, violence, family feuds, all washed down with a beer.
It’s a saga of an American family and an American beer, told by longtime LA Times reporter William Knoedelseder in Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer
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My conversation with William Knoedelseder: