Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America by Herbert Asbury

Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America

Herbert Asbury

576 pages first pub 1938 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative medium-paced

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Originally published in 1938, Sucker's Progress is a complete look at old-time gamesmanship in America. From Midwestern riverboats to East Coast racetracks, Asbury explores the legal, and illegal, history of gambling in pre–World War I America. Wi...

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