Historian James Karmel has let me know about a great oral history project that’s in progress in Atlantic City. From the AC Free Public Library: The interviews will take place throughout the summer, with the final product scheduled to be made available to the public this winter. Once the project has been completed, the interviews […]
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atlantic cityHere’s a brand new review for a book that’s only been out a little more than a month! Am I on the ball, or what? And it’s not a random book that I’ve plucked from the shelves at Lied Library–it’s a poker book. And it’s a good one. Read on, and you’ll see what I
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book reviewsThe The New York Times Magazine, on 6/11 at least, is all about money. You know, the folding green stuff. Jackson Lears has a piece about The American Way of Debt. Being the excellent historian he is, Lears dissects the anti-debt jeremiads and discovers that Americans have always been quick to going into hock: But
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gambling & cultureI read an article about the president’s proposed changes to Social Security that got me thinking about the great debate over whether investing in the stock market is or isn’t gambling. Within the past week, I’ve written a draft of the section of Roll the Bones covering several stock bubbles of the 18th and 19th
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