Episode 42: The Primrose Path
“The Shockingly Violent History of American Moonshine,” Cool Material, https://coolmaterial.com/food-drink/the-violent-history-of-american-moonshine/
“The King of the Moonshiners,” Medium, October 27 2017, https://jeannetteaustin.medium.com/the-king-of-the-moonshiners-5e58a691cf92
“The Bootleg King and the Ambitious Prosecutor Who Took Him Down,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 1 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bootleg-king-and-ambitious-prosecutor-who-took-him-down-180972783/
“Making bootlegger George Remus as big as Al Capone,” Cincinnati.com, August 22 2019, https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2019/08/22/making-bootlegger-george-remus-as-big-as-al-capone/2046966001/
“Millionaire Turned Murderer George Remus Was Inspiration for The Great Gatsby,” History Collection, October 9 2018, https://historycollection.com/millionaire-turned-murderer-george-remus-was-inspiration-for-the-great-gatsby/
“The Volstead Act,” United States House of Representatives, https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Volstead-Act/
Karen Abbott, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America, (Crown, New York City, 2019) 367, 423, 2299, 3386.
William A. Cook, King of the Bootleggers: A Biography of George Remus, (McFarland, Jefferson, NC., 2008).
Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, Dead Distillers : A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits (New York: Abrams, 2016).
“The Bourbon King, The Inside Story: George Remus, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby,” Bob Batchelor, https://www.bobbatchelor.com/blog/2019/9/3/the-bourbon-king-the-inside-story-george-remus-fitzgerald-and-the-great-gatsby
Kristofer Allerfeldt, Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History from 1865–1941, (Taylor & Francis, 2011).
Eric Burns, The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004).
“George Remus Bourbon and Remus Repeal Reserve,” Paste Magazine, July 2 2019, https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/whiskey/george-remus-bourbon/
Thomas M Coffey, The Long Thirst—Prohibition in America: 1920-1933, (W.W. Norton & Co., 1975)
Edward Behr, Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (Arcade Publishing, 1996).
“Loved Wife, Killed Her,” Colorado Historic Newspapers, https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=THD19131018-01.2.7&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------