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Born a sharecropper in rural Alabama in 1930, Theodore A. (Ted) Mack, Sr., fought in the Korean War and defied the odds by playing football at Ohio State and earning a college degree. Brewing and selling beer, he believed, would be just another peak to summit. After all, it couldn't be more challenging than his experience in organizing buses to the March on Washington or picketing segregated schools in Milwaukee. This is the story of Mack's purchase of Peoples Brewing Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Though he had carefully planned for the historic acquisition, he underestimated the subtle...

10,000 Years of Drinking Distilled Into 200 Pages Did you know that the Egyptians who built the pyramids were paid not in gold or silver, but something much more valuable to them: beer? Did you know that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, arguably one of our greatest and most noble thinkers, was a huge advocate of brewing, had his own brewery and was fond of collecting-and drinking-fine wines from around the world? Did you know that the consumption of hard alcohol actually increased during prohibition even though everyone thought it would naturally decrease? Drunken History staggers through...