For a Dollar and a Dream
State Lotteries in Modern America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 December 2022
- ISBN 9780197604885
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 164x237x23 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white illustrations 467
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Short description:
A comprehensive study of American state lotteries, For a Dollar and a Dream shows how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a big windfall.
MoreLong description:
This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot.
Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.
The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of surging inequality and stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating a new source of revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Even as evidence emerged that lotteries only provided a small percentage of state revenue, and even as data mounted about their appeal to the poor, states kept passing them and kept adding new games, desperate for their longshot gamble to pay off. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities.
For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.
In addition to providing a chronological history of the spread of lotteries, this volume also examines the peculiar paradox of lottery advertising and the politics of lotteries in the South. All in all, this is a well-researched look at an enduring American phenomenon that, as a recent $2 billion Powerball jackpot demonstrated, seems to be here to stay.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Astronomical Source of Income: The Return of State Lotteries
Chapter 2: Not Luck, But the Work of God: Merit and Miracles in the 1970s
Chapter 3: Rivers of Gold: The Lottery Industry and the Tax Revolt
Chapter 4: Somebody's Gotta Win, Might as Well Be Me: Lottomania in the 1980s
Chapter 5: This Could Be Your Ticket Out: The Paradox of Lottery Advertising
Chapter 6: Selling Hope: Lottery Politics in the South
Conclusion: Jackpot
Notes
Index
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America
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