For a Dollar and a Dream 1st Edition

For a Dollar and a Dream 1st Edition – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197604908, 0197604900

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197604900
• ISBN-13: 9780197604908
• Author: Jonathan D. Cohen

This first comprehensive history of America’s lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot.Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.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.

Table contents:

1. An Astronomical Source of Income: The Return of State Lotteries
2. Not Luck, but the Work of God: Merit and Miracles in the 1970s
3. Rivers of Gold: The Lottery Industry and the Tax Revolt
4. Somebody’s Gotta Win, Might as Well Be Me: Lottomania in the 1980s
5. This Could Be Your Ticket Out: The Paradox of Lottery Advertising
6. Selling Hope: Lottery Politics in the South

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