Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape

Author: Wolfe, Alan

Brand: Baylor University Press

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 516

EAN: 9781602581951

Release Date: 06-07-2009

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 1.2 inches

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Part Number: tables

model number: tables

Details: Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with essays by experts at the country's premiere centers in public policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology, moral philosophy, theology, and the arts, Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape is a tour de force of the booming cultural and moral phenomenon that has become woven into the fabric of American life. Both an attempt to understand and an effort to predict its future consequences, the book will prove evocative and critical reading for American civic and church leaders, activists, historians and government officials.