Gambling in America
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: September 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781576071595
Subjects: Gambling; Reference works; Sociology - General; Games / Gambling / General; Gambling - General; Games; Sociology; Games/Puzzles; USA; Social History; Social Science / General; United States; Gambling - Table; Canada; Encyclopedias; Social aspects
Description: Whether you believe that gambling is good for the economy or that the Mob runs Vegas, you cannot escape the fact that gambling is the fastest-growing entertainment enterprise in America. In this completely up-to-date volume, America's most renowned gambling scholar examines the history of gambling as well as its current legal, legislative, economic, and social environment. Some of the hundreds of entries in this massive and definitive reference examine: All the important names in the industry, from gambling's seamy past to the corporate "gaming" and "entertainment" present, including biographies of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Jimmy Hoffa, Arnold Rothstein, Stephen Wynn, Donald Trump, Kirk Kerkorian, and many more. The colorful games, rules, institutions, and traditions of American and global gambling, including individual entries on Gambling Terminology, Horse Racing, Indian Gaming, Internet Gambling, Jai Alia, and Lotteries. The development of the Las Vegas Strip. The international scope of gambling, with numerous entries treating individual countries Besides a vast A-to-Z section, Gambling in America is also packed with other features, including a historical introduction, thorough chronology, relevant and informative appendixes, diagrams, rich illustrations, and full cross-references and indexing. There are also end-of-entry references and an extensive annotated bibliography for those who would like to dig even deeper into America's most controversial industry.
Table of contents: title: Adelson, Sheldon -- Africa -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Alberta -- Antigua -- Argentina -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- Aruba -- Asia -- The Atlantic Lottery Corporation -- Baccara, chemin de fer, and baccarat-type games -- The Bahamas -- Bennett, Bill -- Bingo -- Binion, Benny -- Blackjack -- Bolivia -- Boulder City, Nevada : nongambling oasis -- Boyd, Sam -- Brazil -- British Columbia -- California -- Canada -- Canfield, Richard -- Cards, playing -- Caribbean casinos -- Cash transaction reports and money laundering -- Casino -- Casino employees -- Casino nights (Las Vegas nights) -- Cheating schemes -- Chile -- Chips, gambling -- Cockfighting -- Colombia -- Colorado -- Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling -- Comstock, Anthony -- Connecticut -- Costa Rica -- Craps and other dice games -- Credit and debts -- Crime and Gambling -- Cruise ships -- Cuba -- Dalitz, Morris -- Dandolos, Nick -- Davis, John -- Delaware -- Demographic categories of players -- Dog racing -- Dominican Republic -- The economic impacts of gambling -- Economics and gambling -- The European casino -- Faro -- Federal lottery laws -- The Federal Wire Act of 1961 -- Florida -- The gambler's book club -- Gamblers' motivations : why do they gamble? -- Gambling, pathological -- The Gambling Devices Acts (the Johnson Act and Amendments) --    Gambling on the high seas, the laws of -- Gambling systems -- Gaming institutes : research and political -- Gates, John W. -- Gaughan, Jackie -- Guadeloupe -- Guatemala -- Haiti -- Harrah, William F. -- Hawaii -- Hoffa, Jimmy -- Honduras -- Horse racing -- House-banked games -- Hughes, Howard -- Idaho -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Insurance and gambling -- Internet gambling -- The Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 -- Iowa -- Jai Alai -- Japan and pachinko -- Jones, "Canada Bill" -- Kansas -- The Kefauver Committee -- Kennedy, Robert F. -- Keno -- Kentucky -- Kerkorian, Kirk -- The Knapp Commission -- Lansky, Meyer -- Las Vegas -- Laughlin, Don -- Lotteries -- Louisiana -- Louisiana Lottery Company -- Macao -- Maine -- Manitoba -- Martinique -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- McClellan Committees -- Mexico -- Michigan -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Missouri -- Monaco -- Montana -- Morrisey, Jack -- Moss, Johnny -- The National Gambling Impact Study Commission (1997-1999) -- Native American gaming : contemporary -- Native American gaming : data -- Native American gaming : traditional -- Nebraska -- Netherlands Antilles (Sint Maarten, Curaçao, and Bonaire) -- Nevada -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey (and Atlantic City casinos) -- New Mexico -- New York -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Nova Scotia -- Ohio -- Oklahoma -- Ontario -- Oregon -- Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 -- Panama -- Paraguay -- Pari-mutuel wagering systems -- Pendleton, Edward -- Pennsylvania -- Peru -- Player-banked games -- Poker -- Political culture and Nevada : reassessing the theory -- The positive case for gambling : one person's view -- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- President's Commission on Organized Crime -- Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 -- Puerto Rico -- Quebec -- The Racino -- Red dog -- Religion and gambling -- Reno -- Rhode Island -- Rothstein, Arnold -- Roulette and wheels of fortune -- St. Kitts-Nevis -- St. Martin -- St. Vincent -- Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation -- Sawyer, Grant -- Sex and gambling in Nevada -- Siegel, Benjamin -- Slot machines and machine gambling -- South Carolina -- South Dakota -- Sports betting -- The Stock Market -- Suriname -- Taxes, gambling -- Tennessee -- Texas -- Thompson, "Titanic" (Alvin Clarence Thomas) -- The Travel Act of 1961 -- Trente et Quarante (30 and 40) -- Trump, Donald John -- Two Up -- Uruguay -- Utah -- Venezuela -- Vermont -- Virgin Islands -- Virginia -- The Wagering Paraphernalia Act of 1961 -- Washington -- West Virginia -- Western Canadian Lottery Corporation -- Wisconsin -- Wynn, Stephen Alan -- Wyoming -- Yukon Territory.