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Title: Gentlemen Bootleggers
Subtitle: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots
Author: Bryce T. Bauer
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-14-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa - population just 418 - were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit of farmers, small merchants, and even the church Monsignor worked together to create a whiskey so excellent, it was ordered by name: Templeton Rye.
Gentlemen Bootleggers tells a never-before-told tale of ingenuity, bootstrapping, and perseverance in one small town, showcasing a group of immigrants who embraced the American ideals of self-reliance, dynamism, and democratic justice. It relies on previously classified Prohibition Bureau investigation files, federal court case files, extensive newspaper archive research, and a recently disclosed interview with kingpin Joe Irlbeck. Unlike other Prohibition-era tales of big-city gangsters, it provides an important reminder that bootlegging wasn't only about glory and riches, but could be in the service of a higher goal: producing the best whiskey money could buy.
