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All in : the spread of gambling in twentieth-century United States / edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and David G. Schwartz ; foreword by Ann Fabian.

Contributor(s): Series: The gambling studies seriesPublisher: Reno Las Vagas : University of Nevada Press, [2018]Description: xii, 284 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781943859603 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: All inDDC classification:
  • 338.4/779509730904 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6715 .A485 2018
Contents:
Part One : Policing -- 1. "The News from Brooklyn Is Disturbing" : Corruption, Big-City Police, and the Dilemma of Gambling -- 2. "The Ever Watchful Eye of the Magnate" : Policing and Ballpark Gambling in the Twentieth Century --Part Two : Promoting -- 3. "Avoid Advertising the Obvious" : Gambling and the Chamber of Commerce Promotion of Las Vegas in the 1950s -- 4. The Business of Gambling : How Press Releases Helped Legitimize the Gaming Industry in Las Vegas -- Part Three : Proliferating -- 5. Something for Nothing : The Fiscal Alchemy of Lottery Legalization -- 6. No End in Sight : How the United States Became a Gambling Nation, 1950 -- Part Four : Praying -- 7. In the Lion's Den : Evangelicals on the Las Vegas Strip and the Meaning of Billy Graham's 1978 Crusade -- 8. Sanctity, Pragmatism, and Paying the Bills : The Controversial Use of Bingo in Synagogues -- Part Five : Playing -- 9. Rolling the Dice : The Rise of the Reservation Casino and the Native American Fight for Cultural Survival -- 10. The Neoliberal Lottery : Elliot Rodger and the Affective Economy of Masculinity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One : Policing -- 1. "The News from Brooklyn Is Disturbing" : Corruption, Big-City Police, and the Dilemma of Gambling -- 2. "The Ever Watchful Eye of the Magnate" : Policing and Ballpark Gambling in the Twentieth Century --Part Two : Promoting -- 3. "Avoid Advertising the Obvious" : Gambling and the Chamber of Commerce Promotion of Las Vegas in the 1950s -- 4. The Business of Gambling : How Press Releases Helped Legitimize the Gaming Industry in Las Vegas -- Part Three : Proliferating -- 5. Something for Nothing : The Fiscal Alchemy of Lottery Legalization -- 6. No End in Sight : How the United States Became a Gambling Nation, 1950 -- Part Four : Praying -- 7. In the Lion's Den : Evangelicals on the Las Vegas Strip and the Meaning of Billy Graham's 1978 Crusade -- 8. Sanctity, Pragmatism, and Paying the Bills : The Controversial Use of Bingo in Synagogues -- Part Five : Playing -- 9. Rolling the Dice : The Rise of the Reservation Casino and the Native American Fight for Cultural Survival -- 10. The Neoliberal Lottery : Elliot Rodger and the Affective Economy of Masculinity.

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