Lottery Wars Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle over an American Institution

Name: Lottery Wars Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle over an American Institution
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ISBN: 9781596913042

ISBN-10: 1596913045

ISBN-13: 9781596913042

Edition: 2008

Authors: Matthew Sweeney

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The story behind the American lottery: gambling, lawsuits, corruption, moralizing, financial ruin, and more gambling. Despite the infinitesimal odds, more than half of Americans admit to playing the lottery. We wait on long lines and give up our coffee breaks. We scratch tickets, win, and spend the winnings on more scratch tickets. We play our "lucky" numbers, week in and week out. In a country where gambling is largely illegal, this is a strange state of affairs. Lotteries kept the Jamestown settlers alive, despite misgivings from the throne of England. After centuries of a love-hate relationship with the public and the government, including a nationwide ban, forty-two states and the…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction Garbage Stories



The First Lottery



The Professionals



Going Legit



The Boom Years



One Vote



Gtech: Lottery Giant



Ticket Scratch Fever



The Business



History Repeats Itself


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index