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For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in M... by Cohen, Jonathan D. Hardback

Description: The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of surging inequality and stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating a new source of revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Even as evidence emerged that lotteries only provided a small percentage of state revenue, and even as data mounted about their appeal to the poor, states kept passing them and kept adding new games, desperate for their longshot gamble to pay off. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities.

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Location: Waterville, Maine

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Artist: Cohen, Jonathan D.

Publication Name: N/A

Book Title: For a Dollar and a Dream : State Lotteries in Modern America

Original Language: English

Item Length: 6.5 in

Colour: N/A

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0197604889

Language: English

Item Height: 0.9 in

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Topic: United States / 20th Century, Social History

Item Width: 9.3 in

Release Title: For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Intended Audience: Adults

Brand: N/A

Publication Year: 2022

Type: Hardback

EAN: 9780197604885

Illustrator: Yes

Author: Jonathan D. Cohen

Genre: History

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

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