Men were taught to drink as children, even as babies, though women were by no means faint-hearted abstainers. Bostonians drank as much as Virginians, although it was a Virignian, Thomas Jefferson, who invented the presidential cocktail party. The middle class was scarcely more sober than were working-class citizens. At trials the bottle was passed from spectators to attorneys to the judge. Rose, I. Nelson.
Gamblers are, for the most part, a well informed group.
Thousands of books have been written on the correct odds and strategies for all forms of gaming. Until Professor Rose wrote this book there was virtually no literature, or help, available for the person who had a legal problem, whether it was being blacklisted, winning the lottery, or hitting it big on the slot machine in Las Vegas. From Policy To Practice. The first essays explore American roots in the English courts of the eighteenth century and trace the growth of our unique system. Then, a number of writers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our justice system as it exists today.