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

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

Kevin Flynn

272 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative slow-paced
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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 fo...

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