Bad Bet on the Bayou The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards

Name: Bad Bet on the Bayou The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards
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ISBN: 9780374528546

ISBN-10: 0374528543

ISBN-13: 9780374528546

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Authors: Tyler Bridges

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Louisiana is our most exotic state. It is religious and roguish, a place populated by Cajuns, Creoles, Rednecks, and Bible-thumpers. It is a state that loves good food, good music, and good times. Laissez les bons temps rouler -- let the good times roll -- is the unofficial motto. Louisiana is also excessively corrupt. In the 1990s, it plunged headlong into legalized gambling, authorizing more games of chance than any other state. Leading the charge was Governor Edwin Edwards, who for years had flaunted his fondness for cold cash and high-stakes gambling, and who had used his razor-sharp mind and catlike reflexes to stay one step ahead of the law. Gambling, Edwin Edwards, and Louisiana's…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Tyler Bridges is a reporter for "The Miami Herald", where he was part of a team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He covered the 1990s legalization of gambling in Louisiana as a reporter for "The Times-Picayune" of New Orleans.