Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Gambling
ISBN : OCLC:10518225
Sucker's Progress
Herbert Asbury
Sucker S Progress
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Sucker's Progress
Herbert Asbury
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422355373
Sucker's Progress by Herbert Asbury Pdf
Sucker's Progress
Herbert Asbury
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258800756
Sucker's Progress by Herbert Asbury Pdf
Sucker’s Progress
Herbert Asbury
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781787201354
Sucker’s Progress by Herbert Asbury Pdf
From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker’s Progress: An Information History of Gambling in America. From Midwestern Riverboats to East Coast Racetracks, Herbert Asbury explores the legal and illegal history of gambling in pre-WWII America. Describing notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans, as well as lesser-known outposts in cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also presented are the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes,” men who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also explores the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of dozens of dice and card games. From $1 lottery tickets to thousand dollar pokes antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion. “Asbury embarked on what seems in retrospect an extraordinary mission: to document the entire underworld of America, from New Orleans to San Francisco....His studies of gambling, of the racial politics of the New Orleans French Quarter, and of the history of Chicago crime remain monuments to an ambition that was then confined to the fringes of pop history. Sucker’s Progress, his history of gambling and swindling in America, is dense with facts about a subject one would have thought persisted only as rumour and tall tale.”—A. GOPNIK, The New Yorker One of the best American books of its kind. He tells the story of the New York underworld of the past century, and his narrative is excellently presented in a book adorned with amusing pictures from the weeklies and newspapers.”—E. Pearson, The Sat. Rev. of Books
African American Organized Crime
Rufus Schatzberg,Robert J. Kelly
Author : Rufus Schatzberg,Robert J. Kelly
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813524458
African American Organized Crime by Rufus Schatzberg,Robert J. Kelly Pdf
Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means. The authors examine the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions that fostered growth of criminal groups and organizations in African American communities from the post-Civil War era to the ghettoes of today.
Sucker Punch
Amanda J Field
Author : Amanda J Field
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911105718
Sucker Punch by Amanda J Field Pdf
The 1930s, 40s and 50s were the heyday of the boxing film, attracting some of the biggest stars of the time - including Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman - and some of the best directors. Yet it is a genre that has received little critical attention apart from a few films singled out because they can be categorised as film noir. It would be easy to assume, therefore, that the typical boxing film of this period was a dark melodrama with the tragic and doomed figure of the boxer at its centre, but that gives a false picture of a genre that included comedies and costume dramas among its 130-plus films. Sucker Punch invites the reader to take a wider look at the scope and breadth of the genre by providing a detailed discussion of 20 boxing films - a selection from each decade - from Hollywood and British studios. Some, such as Body and Soul, have become part of the established 'canon' of Film Studies, while lighter fare, such as Ringside Maisie or Gentleman Jim, have been overlooked by the critics but are worthy of re-examination - not simply because they are enjoyable films in their own right, but also because they offer insights into social attitudes of the times. The book draws on contemporary sources, such as trade-paper film reviews, as well as modern academic criticism, to build a highly readable account of the development of the boxing genre and its narrative conventions.
Louisiana: A Guide to the State
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : 9781603540179
Louisiana: A Guide to the State by Anonim Pdf
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008, Part 5, 110-1 Hearings
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015085444043
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008, Part 5, 110-1 Hearings by Anonim Pdf
Biological/conference Opinion Regarding the Effects of Operation of the Bureau of Reclamation's Klamath Project on the Endangered Lost River Sucker (Deltistes Luxatus), Endangered Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes Brevirostris), Threatened Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) and Proposed Critical Habitat for the Lost River/shortnose Suckers
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bald eagle
ISBN : UCR:31210018659159
Biological/conference Opinion Regarding the Effects of Operation of the Bureau of Reclamation's Klamath Project on the Endangered Lost River Sucker (Deltistes Luxatus), Endangered Shortnose Sucker (Chasmistes Brevirostris), Threatened Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) and Proposed Critical Habitat for the Lost River/shortnose Suckers by Anonim Pdf
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000139684785
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Pdf
The World of Suckers
Lionel Josaphare
Author : Lionel Josaphare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B274641
The World of Suckers by Lionel Josaphare Pdf
Miscellaneous Publication
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015010077686
Miscellaneous Publication by Anonim Pdf
Sporting Dystopias
Ralph C. Wilcox,David L. Andrews,Robert Pitter,Richard L. Irwin
Author : Ralph C. Wilcox,David L. Andrews,Robert Pitter,Richard L. Irwin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791487099
Sporting Dystopias by Ralph C. Wilcox,David L. Andrews,Robert Pitter,Richard L. Irwin Pdf
Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, marketing, media studies, and sociology, examine the cultural, economic, and political interplay of sport and the city. The book systematically challenges the overwhelming claims of sport's benefit to the city as it scrutinizes the various tensions inherent in the relationship. Grounded in economic means, racial and ethnic affiliation, and the contestation for space, sport is seen as precipitating a broad range of human challenges.
Aquaculture Research
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aquaculture
ISBN : UCSD:31822008738742
Aquaculture Research by Anonim Pdf
Toxicology Research Projects Directory
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980-04
Category : Toxicology
ISBN : UOM:39015010283813
