Jonathan D. Cohen (Program Officer, Program Officer, American Acade

For a Dollar and a Dream

State Lotteries in Modern America

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of American state lotteries, For a Dollar and a Dream shows how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a big windfall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780197604885
• ISBN-10: 0197604889
• Artikelnr.: 63690313

Autorenporträt

Jonathan D. Cohen is a program officer at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the co-editor of All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States and Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen. He received his PhD in history from the University of Virginia. https://www.jonathandcohen.com

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: An Astronomical Source of Income: The Return of State
Lotteries
* Chapter 2: Not Luck, But the Work of God: Merit and Miracles in the
1970s
* Chapter 3: Rivers of Gold: The Lottery Industry and the Tax Revolt
* Chapter 4: Somebody's Gotta Win, Might as Well Be Me: Lottomania in
the 1980s
* Chapter 5: This Could Be Your Ticket Out: The Paradox of Lottery
Advertising
* Chapter 6: Selling Hope: Lottery Politics in the South
* Conclusion: Jackpot
* Notes
* Index