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Hardcover American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age Book

ISBN: 1611687020

ISBN13: 9781611687026

American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age

By 1963 public lotteries--a time-honored if tarnished method of raising revenue for everything from the Roman roads to Washington's Continental Army--had been outlawed in the United States for seventy years. The only legal gambling in America was found in Nevada, where mob involvement had at first been an open secret, and then revealed as no secret at all. In New Hampshire--a conservative, rural state with no sales tax and persistent problems with...

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