American Sweepstakes : How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age.
The dramatic story of the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Sweepstakes.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
University Press of New England,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One | Place Your Bets; 1 | The Song and Dance Man; 2 | The Fates, the Founding Fathers, and the Golden Octopus; 3 | The Federal Threat; 4 | A Dainty Dish; 5 | The Noble Experiment; 6 | The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World; Part Two | See How They Run; 7 | This Shabby Dodge; 8 | Drive an Honest Racketeer Crooked; 9 | Hoover's Favorite; 10 | One of Those All-American Guys; 11 | The Crusader; 12 | The Charm Offensive; Illustrations ; 13 | Last Full Measure; Part Three | All The Rage ; 14 | The Committee of One Hundred.
- 15 | The Vote16 | Dreams Are Born; 17 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; 18 | This Is a Test; 19 | The Sharpies' Loophole; Part Four | All of King's Horses; 20 | The Draw; 21 | The Final Stretch; 22 | They're Off at Rockingham; 23 | The Most Popular Thing Since the Revolution; 24 | The Sport of King's; 25 | Unnoticed, Unmourned; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.