** Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media,
both traditional and online.
** Targeted outreach to history and liquor/booze
organizations, websites, and publications.
** Targeted outreach to Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and
other traditional “men’s” magazines
** Social media marketing on Facebook, Twitter, and
Goodreads giveaways, including author’s own:
__* Dedicated “Bourbon King” Facebook page
__* Co-editor, “Cincinnati Bootlegging & Prohibition” Facebook
page: 2,501 followers
__* Twitter: 1,500 followers; 658,300 impressions last quarter
(219K monthly)
__* LinkedIn: 5,327 followers, 5,407 connections
__* BobBatchelor.com: 9,800 page views (Nov-Jan)
** Author’s Mailing List: 10,000 media contacts
** Author’s Past Media and Appearances: PBS Newshour, ABC
Australia, Fox 19 Cincinnati, NPR Cincinnati, NPR San Diego,
Washington Post, New York Times, Today.com, Tencent (China), BBC
Radio World Service, The Guardian, ABCNews.com
** On-Air Expert: National geographic channel television
series (global): “The ‘80s Greatest” and “The ‘90s Greatest,”
Wisconsin Public Television
** Confirmed Events
Large venues
Frazier Museum (Louisville): Paired dinner/tasting
Pogue Distillery: Book talk in the round, bourbon release date
Mercantile Library: Paired dinner/tasting with restaurateur and
bestselling author Molly Wellman, recently named the top restaurant
owner/bartender in America
Mid-sized venues
Oswald Construction (Cincinnati): Private signing/dinner & drink
pairing
Rookwood Pottery (Cincinnati): The home of “art pottery” in the
US
Small venues
Lane Public Library (Hamilton, OH)
Glendale Public Library (Glendale, OH)
Price Hill Historical Society (Price Hill, OH)
Turner-Dodge House and Museum (Lansing, MI)
Tentative
Large
Seelbach Hotel (Louisville)
Fitton Performing Arts Center (Hamilton, OH)
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
Mid-sized
Joseph-Beth Bookstore (Cincinnati)
Joseph-Beth Bookstore (Lexington)
Delaware County Genealogical Society/Library (Delaware, OH)
Small
Clyde Museum & McPherson House (Clyde, OH)
Auglaize Historical Society (Auglaize County, OH)
Potential
Large
W Hotel and Ebbetts Grill (Washington DC)
Book Festival: Books by the Banks (Cincinnati)
Book Festival: Ohioana Book Festival (Columbus)
Book Festival: Buckeye Book Festival (Wooster, OH’s largest)
Netherlands Hotel (Cincinnati)
Brown-Forman Corporation: Jack Daniels, Old Forrester, etc.
(Louisville)
Moerlein Brewery: Craft beer (Cincinnati)
Mid-sized
Barnes and Noble (West Chester, OH)
Barnes and Noble (Fields Ertel store, OH)
Barnes and Noble (Newport on the Levee, KY)
Other items
Podcast: Guest on Party Source Podcast (liquor party center,
largest in Midwest)
TV: Cincy Lifestyle, daily arts & entertainment show on WCPO (ABC
affiliate)
Feature Interview: BIO organization newsletter (Biographer’s
International Organization)
** “That Roaring Decade”: Cross-channel video and podcast campaign
focusing on the 1920s, features discussion of culture and history
of the Jazz Age. From quirky news items drawn from 1920s newspapers
(millions of them!) to analysis and possible interviews with 1920s
experts, “That Roaring Decade” will be a place where history lovers
can get interesting, fun information about the decade, which is
woefully undervalued at present.
Bob Batchelor is a critically-acclaimed, bestselling cultural
historian and biographer. He has published widely on American
history and literature, including books on Stan Lee, Bob Dylan, The
Great Gatsby, Mad Men, and John Updike. Batchelor earned his
doctorate in English Literature from the University of South
Florida. He teaches in the Media, Journalism & Film department at
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and lives in Cincinnati with his
wife, Suzette, and their teen daughters.
Visit bobbatchelor.com.
“[Remus] was one of those larger-than-life outlaws…[Batchelor]
makes this flashy bootlegger sound like a folk hero…Since Remus
made a point of selling pure, unadulterated hooch, he soon became
the kingpin of a national network of suppliers, distributors,
lawyers and goons. Behold the king.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Death and deception! Money and mayhem! Murder in broad daylight!
The trial of the century! With The Bourbon King, Bob Batchelor
brings us a story that seems ripped from the tabloids, except it
all happens to be true. Batchelor tells the story of George Remus,
one of the world’s most notorious bootleggers, with verve and
pizzazz worthy of the gangster movies of Hollywood’s Golden
Era.”
—Brian Jay Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Dr.
Seuss and Jim Henson: The Biography
“The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the ‘Roaring
Twenties’ look like the ‘Boring Twenties’ in comparison. It’s all
here: murder, mayhem—and high-priced hooch.”
—David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six
Presidents
“Forget Al Capone. Forget Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson.
Let us turn our attention, instead, to one George Remus, the
Bourbon King of prohibition…The Bourbon King might as well be the
outline of a Netflix or HBO series…All in all, it’s a hell of a
story.”
—Washington Independent Review of Books
“Batchelor covers Remus’ entire life, from his days in Chicago as a
pharmacist and showboating attorney to his meteoric rise as ‘the
king of the bootleggers’ to his final days in obscurity in
Covington. And he meticulously traces how Remus built—and lost—his
empire.”
—Cincinnati Enquirer
“Batchelor does a masterful job of historical journalism using
archival resources to paint a picture of the man and his time. . .
. Remus comes across as a bigger-than-life force of nature. . . .
The Bourbon King is a compelling Jazz Age tale that mixes in crime,
booze, gangsters, and lust.”
—Houston Press
“Guns, ghosts, graft (and even Goethe) are all present in Bob
Batchelor’s meticulous account of the life and times of the
notorious George Remus. Brimming with liquor and lust, greed, and
revenge, this entertaining book might make you reach for a good,
stiff drink when you’re done.”
—Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men
“The roaring ’20s glisten with vice and danger in this fast-paced
portrait of prolific bootlegger George Remus, from biographer
Batchelor. . . . [The] action-packed narrative both entertains and
informs with its tales of the corruption of President Warren G.
Harding’s attorney general, the bootlegging trade, and the public’s
oscillating views of Remus and Prohibition in general.
Larger-than-life characters take the reins of this story, a
rip-roaring good time for any American history buff or true-crime
fan."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The Bourbon King is a much-needed addition to the American mobster
nonfiction bookshelf. For too long, George Remus has taken a
backseat to his Prohibition-era gangster peers like Lucky Luciano
and Al Capone. Read here about a man who intoxicated the nation
with a near-endless supply of top-shelf Kentucky bourbon, and then
got away with murder.”
—James Higdon, author of The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown
Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in
American History
“Al Capone had nothing on George Remus, the true king of
Prohibition. His life journey is fascinating, a Jazz Age cocktail
that Bob Batchelor mixes for readers within these pages. Remus went
from pharmacist to high-profile defense attorney to bourbon king to
murderer.”
—Tom Stanton, author of Terror in the City of Champions: Murder,
Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era
Detroit
“An aggressive, ambitious foray into the brutal life and times of
George Remus, an archetypal figure emerging from the sordid
tapestry of life and crime in the Prohibition Era. This historical
portrait is presented not in traditional, dry prose exposition, but
rather in lucid, hard-hitting, tight writing interlaced with
striking dialogue—a form of storytelling that is effective,
efficient, and transporting.”
—Phillip Sipiora, editor of Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of
Norman Mailer
“A captivating portrayal of the Roaring Twenties, The Bourbon King
shows how George Remus built and lost a bootleg empire, only to be
entangled in a love triangle that led to murder. Bob Batchelor
brings the seedy underworld of the 1920s fully to life.”
—Richard Steigmann-Gall, author of The Holy Reich
“Bob Batchelor is at the top of his game in this fascinating study,
which combines the thrilling and often disturbing story of George
Remus’s life with penetrating insights into the history of
Prohibition, corruption, law enforcement, and the business of
American bootlegging. A pleasure to read for historians and bourbon
aficionados alike.”
—Thomas Heinrich, author of Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia
Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
“This is another contribution from a leading scholar of popular
culture. He brings to life a colorful character from the
Prohibition era in a style worthy of his subject.”
—Lawrence S. Kaplan, University Professor Emeritus, Kent State
University
“[A] comprehensive look at Remus's life…Recommended primarily for
readers already interested in nonfiction accounts of organized
crime or Prohibition.”
—Library Journal
“A top-notch true crime biography of a Roaring Twenties outlaw…An
enthralling narrative of a man possessing multitudes of talents,
yet also foibles. Remus is a larger than life figure who is
compelling, yet at times repellent. The story holds the reader’s
attention until the very end. An A++ biography.”
—San Francisco Book Review
“A true-life tale worthy of the most sensationalist tabloids…[An]
expertly researched story, sure to fascinate historians,
criminologists, and lay readers alike. Highly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Impressively researched…Batchelor charts the growth of Remus’s
liquor empire and his spectacular downfall in astounding detail,
and brings plenty of local knowledge to his version of the
story.”
—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
“Strongly recommend…Very entertaining and a good read that provides
an excellent look at the life and crimes of George Remus.”
––BourbonFool.com
“Batchelor delves into the story of a man whose name, strangely,
has faded into the mist while that of Al Capone remains the
archetype of the 1920s booze peddler.”
—Akron Beacon Journal
“The book provides great insight into a brilliant man who was
greatly troubled.”
—Collected Miscellany
“Wonderfully researched and entertaining.”
—Brooklyn Digest
“A splashy story about a character as colorful as any born in
Hollywood.”
—Milwaukee Shepherd Express
“Historians and connoisseurs alike will love reading The Bourbon
King by Bob Batchelor. It’s the story of George Remus, his crimes,
and his totally illegal prohibition-era empire.”
—The Bookworm Sez
“Bob Batchelor breathes life into the tale of George Remus…A lens
into the dark heart of Prohibition.”
—Entertainment Report
"Outlines the fascinating rise and fall of the hoodlum bon vivant,
who built an empire on hooch.”
—Sophisticated Living
Praise for the author’s previous book Stan Lee: The Man Behind
Marvel
"Where Batchelor succeeds most is fleshing out the settings and
context along the narrative spine of Lee’s life." –Washington
Post
"Fun Ride!" –New York Daily News
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