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Author : John Philip Quinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Fools of fortune, or, Gambling and gamblers written by John Philip Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quinn John Philip
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ISBN 13 : 9783337652678
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Fools of Fortune or Gambling and Gamblers written by Quinn John Philip and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Philip Quinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Fools of Fortune, Or, Gambling and Gamblers written by John Philip Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Philip Quinn
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers written by John Philip Quinn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a history of the vice in ancient and modern times all over the world and makes an exposition of its alarming prevalence and destructive effects. This work discusses with an unreserved and exhaustive disclosure of such frauds, tricks and devices as are practiced by "Professional" gamblers, "Confidence Men" and "Bunko Steerers", in order to alert readers not to fall into a trap.
Author : John Philip Quinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Fools of Fortune written by John Philip Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539851868
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (518 download)
Download or read book American Gambling and Gamblers written by John Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author of this work has traveled over most of the surface of the United States, and has set up the green tables in towns and cities in nearly every State in the Union, and in each and every instance he has been compelled to purchase official protection for his unlawful trade ; making payments in some cases to mayors; sometimes to the chiefs of police or city marshals, and on other occasions to individual policemen. In this way the authority that is invested with the duty of protecting society is suborned and prostituted to the vile end of extending official protection to the very crime which it is its sworn duty to exterminate." A professional gambler, the "sharp" John Philip Quinn writes not only a strong manifesto against gambling, but a vivid, comprehensive, hands-on history of the American gambling. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Newport, San Francisco, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Saratoga, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Mobile, Charleston, Austin, Hartford, Quebec, Kansas City, Buffalo, and more; the secrets and tricks of Faro, Poker, Rouge et Noir, Roulette, Keno, Seven-Up, Casino, Euchre, Cribbage, Twenty-One, Hieronymus, Chuck-a-Luck, Craps, Mustang, Grand Hazard; the money-making schemes at fairs and circuses, with the Needle-Wheel, the Corona, the Wheel-of-Fortune, the Squeeze Spindle, the Tivoli, the Jenny Wheel, and so on. Be prepared for a wild ride; and get ready to meet the sharps and the flats; the suckers; shell-men and cappers; ropers, steerers and confederates; blacklegs; top-stock gamblers and broken-down gamblers; pluggers, chippers and mud-hens, pidgeon-pluckers, scalpers and plungers, bulls and bears. This is a professional reproduction of the book published in 1890.
Author : Richard Lindberg
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328932
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Gambler King of Clark Street written by Richard Lindberg and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine tells the story of a larger-than-life figure who fused Chicago’s criminal underworld with the city’s political and commercial spheres to create an urban machine built on graft, bribery, and intimidation. In this first ever biography of McDonald, author Richard C. Lindberg vividly paints the life of the Democratic kingmaker against the wider backdrop of nineteenth-century Chicago crime and politics. Twenty-five years before Al Capone’s birth, Michael McDonald was building the foundations of the modern Chicago Democratic machine. By marshaling control of and suborning a complex web of precinct workers, ward and county bosses, justices of the peace, police captains, contractors, suppliers, and spoils-men, the undisputed master of the gambling syndicates could elect mayoral candidates, finagle key appointments for political operatives willing to carry out his mandates, and coerce law enforcement and the judiciary. The resulting machine was dedicated to the supremacy of the city’s gambling, vice, and liquor rackets during the waning years of the Gilded Age. McDonald was warmly welcomed into the White House by two sitting presidents who recognized him for what he was: the reigning “boss” of Chicago. In a colorful and often riotous life, McDonald seemed to control everything around him—everything that is, except events in his personal life. His first wife, the fiery Mary Noonan McDonald, ran off with a Catholic priest. The second, Dora Feldman, twenty-five years his junior, murdered her teenaged lover in a sensational 1907 scandal that broke Mike’s heart and drove him to an early grave. Michael McDonald’s name has long been cited in the published work of city historians, members of academia, and the press as the principal architect of a unified criminal enterprise that reached into the corridors of power in Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois, and all the way to the Oval Office. The Gambler King of Clark Street is both a major addition to Chicago’s historical literature and a revealing biography of a powerful and troubled man.
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136685642
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Card Sharps and Bucket Shops written by Ann Fabian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the reformers who sought to ban gambling; psychological explanations for the deviant gambler; numbers games in the African American community; and efforts by speculators to draw distinctions between their own activities and gambling. She combines first-rate cultural analysis with rigorous research, and along the way provides a wealth of colorful details, characters and anecdotes.
Author : P. C. Kemeny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844396
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The New England Watch and Ward Society written by P. C. Kemeny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of American Protestantism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By suppressing obscene literature, gambling, and prostitution, the moral reform organization embodied Protestant efforts to shape public morality in an increasing intellectually and culturally diverse society.
Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Gambling in America written by United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stewart N. Ethier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540787836
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Doctrine of Chances written by Stewart N. Ethier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two books on probability theory emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This book, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classics.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178720135X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Sucker’s Progress written by Herbert Asbury and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : George E. Littlefield (Firm)
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Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books written by George E. Littlefield (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668428
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago, Volume III written by Bessie Louise Pierce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Author : David C. Humphrey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112637
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Austin written by David C. Humphrey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with historic photographs, tells the story of Austin’s transformation from an “Indian haunted” frontier village into a residential mecca and high-tech hot spot. Called by Sam Houston at its founding the “most unfortunate site upon earth for the seat of government,” the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin’s nineteenth-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught. A slave city in a slave state, Austin cast its lot with the Confederacy. Retaining a frontier flavor into the 1890s, post–Civil War Austin became the headquarters of the Texas gambling fraternity and a magnet for cowmen seeking “booze and women of the night.” Turning the nineteenth-century frontier town into an appealing twentieth-century residential community taxed the energies of civic leaders for several decades. Virtually parkless and with no paved streets in 1900, Austin by the 1940s boasted tree-lined boulevards, a cornucopia of parks and pools, and a leisurely lifestyle. But for African American residents these were years of oppressive segregation. Mexicans encountered similar treatment as Austin became a tri-ethnic community during the 1920s and 1930s. Segregation gradually gave way in a divisive but nonviolent struggle. While adjusting to this, Austin experienced eye-popping expansion. Fearful that Austin would become “another Houston,” residents sought to preserve the lifestyle that had made the capital city such an attractive place to live.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224965
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Rooted in Barbarous Soil written by Kevin Starr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.
