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Author : Herbert Asbury
language : en
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Release Date : 1938
Sucker S Progress written by Herbert Asbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Gambling categories.
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Author : Herbert Asbury
language : en
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Release Date : 2006-09-01
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Author : Herbert Asbury
language : en
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Release Date : 2013-08
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Author : Herbert Asbury
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Sucker S Progress written by Herbert Asbury and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with True Crime categories.
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
The World Of Suckers
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Author : Lionel Josaphare
language : en
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Release Date : 1909
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Sucker Punch
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Author : Amanda J Field
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Sucker Punch written by Amanda J Field and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with Performing Arts categories.
The 1930s, 40s and 50s were the heyday of the boxing film, attracting some of the biggest stars of the time - including Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman - and some of the best directors. Yet it is a genre that has received little critical attention apart from a few films singled out because they can be categorised as film noir. It would be easy to assume, therefore, that the typical boxing film of this period was a dark melodrama with the tragic and doomed figure of the boxer at its centre, but that gives a false picture of a genre that included comedies and costume dramas among its 130-plus films. Sucker Punch invites the reader to take a wider look at the scope and breadth of the genre by providing a detailed discussion of 20 boxing films - a selection from each decade - from Hollywood and British studios. Some, such as Body and Soul, have become part of the established 'canon' of Film Studies, while lighter fare, such as Ringside Maisie or Gentleman Jim, have been overlooked by the critics but are worthy of re-examination - not simply because they are enjoyable films in their own right, but also because they offer insights into social attitudes of the times. The book draws on contemporary sources, such as trade-paper film reviews, as well as modern academic criticism, to build a highly readable account of the development of the boxing genre and its narrative conventions.
Louisiana A Guide To The State
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language : en
Publisher: US History Publishers
Release Date : 1976
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Interior Environment And Related Agencies Appropriations For 2008 Part 5 110 1 Hearings
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language : en
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Release Date : 2007
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Biological Conference Opinion Regarding The Effects Of Operation Of The Bureau Of Reclamation S Klamath Project On The Endangered Lost River Sucker Deltistes Luxatus Endangered Shortnose Sucker Chasmistes Brevirostris Threatened Bald Eagle Haliaeetus Leucocephalus And Proposed Critical Habitat For The Lost River Shortnose Suckers
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Release Date : 2001
Biological Conference Opinion Regarding The Effects Of Operation Of The Bureau Of Reclamation S Klamath Project On The Endangered Lost River Sucker Deltistes Luxatus Endangered Shortnose Sucker Chasmistes Brevirostris Threatened Bald Eagle Haliaeetus Leucocephalus And Proposed Critical Habitat For The Lost River Shortnose Suckers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bald eagle categories.
Interior Environment And Related Agencies Appropriations For 2012
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Interior Environment And Related Agencies Appropriations For 2012 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with United States categories.