Contents
Foreword / Ann Fabian
Introduction / Jonathan D. Cohen and David G. Schwartz
Part One. Policing
1. “ The News from Brooklyn Is Disturbing”— Corruption, Big-City Police, and the Dilemma of Gambling / Matthew Vaz
2. “ The Ever Watchful Eye of the Magnate”— Policing and Ballpark Gambling in the Twentieth Century / Seth S. Tannenbaum
Part Two. Promoting
3. “ Avoid Advertising the Obvious”— Gambling and the Chamber of Commerce Promotion of Las Vegas in the 1950s / Larry Gragg
4. The Business of Gambling — How Press Releases Helped Legitimize the Gaming Industry in Las Vegas / Jessalynn R. Strauss
Part Three. Proliferating
5. Something for Nothing — The Fiscal Alchemy of Lottery Legalization / Jonathan D. Cohen
6. No End in Sight — How the United States Became a Gambling Nation, 1950–2000 / David G. Schwartz
Part IV. Praying
7. In the Lion’s Den — Evangelicals on the Las Vegas Strip and the Meaning of Billy Graham’s 1978 Crusade / Michelle Robinson
8. Sanctity, Pragmatism, and Paying the Bills —The Controversial Use of Bingo in Synagogues / Dan Judson
Part V. Playing
9. Rolling the Dice — The Rise of the Reservation Casino and the Native American Fight for Cultural Survival / Seema Kurup
10. The Neoliberal Lottery — Elliot Rodger and the Affective Economy of Masculinity / Daniel Ante-Contreras
Contributors
About the Editors
Index