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Jokers wild : legalized gambling in the twenty-first century /
A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from Bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas. The book reveals how America has become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Where are we now? : gambling today
- Extent and nature of legal gambling
- Conclusion
- 3. New wine in old bottles
- The colonists
- Nineteenth-century gambling
- Conclusion
- 4. Sin, vice, and gangsters
- New York casinos
- Gambling as a business : organized crime
- Conclusion
- 5. Gambling as a legitimate industry
- The phantom arrives
- William F. Harrah of Reno
- Las Vegas : adult Disney World
- Atlantic City : gambling on the Boardwalk
- Conclusion
- 6. The dam bursts : Indian gambling and gambling vessels
- The red man enters
- Roll 'em on the river : return of the riverboats?
- Conclusion
- 7. Gambling-lotteries : state-run games of chance
- Nature and extent
- Permission : you may
- The games people play : the modern lottery
- Please do : advertising
- 8. The web of gambling
- What is the Internet?
- Regulating the web
- Action by the states
- Action by the Federal government
- The business of online wagering
- Conclusion
- 9. Intellectualizing the action : why people gamble
- Compulsive gambling
- Pathological gambling
- Emerging definitions
- Square pegs in round holes : gambling theories
- Treatment models
- Benefiting from people's addictions
- Conclusions
- 10. Effects on special populations
- Youth gambling
- College gambling
- Senior citizens gambling
- Women
- 11. Effects on communities
- He says : the American Gaming Association
- She says : anti-gambling activist
- Conclusion
- 12. Enter the Federal Commission
- Introduction
- 1996 National Gambling Impact Study Commission
- Commission recommendations
- Conclusion
- 13. Enough is enough
- Introduction
- Market saturation
- Competition
- Gambling-lotteries
- Convenience/neighborhood gambling
- Further signs of trouble
- Conclusion.