All in : the spread of gambling in twentieth-century United States /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Gambling studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One â#x96;® Policing; 1. â#x80;#x9C;The News from Brooklyn Is Disturbingâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x94;Corruption, Big-City Police, and the Dilemma of Gambling; 2. â#x80;#x9C;The Ever Watchful Eye of the Magnateâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x94;Policing and Ballpark Gambling in the Twentieth Century; Part Two â#x96;® Promoting; 3. â#x80;#x9C;Avoid Advertising the Obviousâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x94;Gambling and the Chamber of Commerce Promotion of Las Vegas in the 1950s; 4. The Business of Gamblingâ#x80;#x94;How Press Releases Helped Legitimize the Gaming Industry in Las Vegas; Part Three â#x96;® Proliferating
- 5. Something for Nothingâ#x80;#x94;The Fiscal Alchemy of Lottery Legalization6. No End in Sightâ#x80;#x94;How the United States Became a Gambling Nation, 1950â#x80;#x93;2000; Part Four â#x96;® Praying; 7. In the Lionâ#x80;#x99;s Denâ#x80;#x94;Evangelicals on the Las Vegas Strip and the Meaning of Billy Grahamâ#x80;#x99;s 1978 Crusade; 8. Sanctity, Pragmatism, and Paying the Billsâ#x80;#x94;The Controversial Use of Bingo in Synagogues; Part Five â#x96;® Playing; 9. Rolling the Diceâ#x80;#x94;The Rise of the Reservation Casino and the Native American Fight for Cultural Survival; 10. The Neoliberal Lotteryâ#x80;#x94;Elliot Rodger and the Affective Economy of Masculinity
- ContributorsAbout the Editors; Index