1. Guidebooks and Contemporary Accounts
2. Monographs and Books

Guidebooks and Contemporary Accounts

Alcamo, John. Atlantic City: Behind the Tables. Grand Rapids, MI: Gollehon, 1991.

Best, Katherine and Katharine Hillyer. Las Vegas: Playtown USA. New York: David McKay Company, 1955.

Friedman, Bill. Casino Management. Seacaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1974.

Harrah's Survey of Casino Entertainment. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., 1996.

Kefauver, Estes. Crime in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951.

Knapp, Donn. Las Vegas: Entertainment Capital. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Publishing, 1983.

Maxim, Hiram S. Monte Carlo Facts and Fallacies. London: Alexander Moring LTD, 1903.

Puzo, Mario. Inside Las Vegas. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1977.

Reid, Ed and Ovid Demaris. The Green Felt Jungle. New York: Trident Press, 1963.

V.B. Monte Carlo Anecdotes and Systems of Play. London: William Heinemann, 1910.


Monographs and Books

Albini, Joseph L. The American Mafia: Genesis of a Legend. New York: Irvington Publishers Inc., 1979.

Allen, David D. The Nature of Gambling. New York: Coward-McCann, 1952.

Alvarez, A. The Biggest Game in Town. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.

Arm, Walter. Pay-off: The Inside Story of Big City Corruption. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951.

Asbury, Herbert. Sucker's Progress: an informal history of gambling in America from the colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1938.

Barnhart, Russell T. Gamblers of Yesteryear. Las Vegas: GBC Press, 1983.

Barnhart, Russell T. Gambling in Revolutionary Paris- The Palais Royal 1789-1838. Las Vegas: R.T. Barnhart, 1990.

Blyth, Henry. Hell and Hazard: or, William Crockford versus the gentlemen of England. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.

Bushnell, Eleanor ed. Sagebrush and Neon. Reno: University of Nevada Bureau of Governmental Research, 1976.

Chafetz, Henry. Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1955. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960.

Chinn, Carl. Better Betting with a Decent Feller: Bookmaking, Betting and the British Working Class, 1750-1990. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.

Clapson, Mark. A Bit of a Flutter: Popular Gambling and English Society, 1823-1961. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.

Davies, Richard O. ed. The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999.

DeArment, Robert K. Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Dombrink, John and William N. Thompson. The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1990.

Eadington, William R. ed. Gambling and Society: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1976.

Eadington, William R. and Judy A. Cornelius, eds. Gambling and Public Policy: International Perspectives. Reno: Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, 1991.

Fabian, Ann. Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Farrell, Ronald A and Carole Case, The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of Nevada's Casinos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Fielding, Xan. The Money Spinner: Monte Carlo Casino. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.

Findlay, John. People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Gage, Nicholas. The Mafia is not an Equal Opportunity Employer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Gage, Nicholas. Mafia, U.S.A. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1972.

Gardner, Jack. Gambling: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1980.

Geis, Gilbert. Not the Law's Business? An Examination of Homosexuality, Abortion, Prostitution, Narcotics, and Gambling in the United States. Rockville: National Institute of Mental Health Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency, 1972.

Goodman, Robert. The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Hess, Alan. Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Hsu, Cathy H. C. ed. Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States: The Economic and Social Impact. New York: The Hapworth Hospitality Press, 1999.

Huizinga. Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1950.

Johnston, David. Temples of Chance: How America, Inc., Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Jones, J. Philip. Gambling Yesterday and Today: A Complete History. London: Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1973.

King, Rufus. Gambling and Organized Crime. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1969.

Lambert, Richard D. ed. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Gambling: The View from the Social Sciences. Vol. 474. July 1984.

Lewis, Oscar. Sagebrush Casinos: The story of legal gambling in Nevada. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1953.

McManus, James. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Company, 2003.

McMillen, Jan ed. Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation. Routledge: London and New York, 1996.

Moehring, Eugene. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-1970. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1989.

Moore, William Howard. The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime, 1950-1952. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974.

Munting, Roger. An Economic and Social History of Gambling in Britain and the USA. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Newman, Otto. Gambling: Hazard and Reward. London: The Athlone Press, 1972.

Rothman, Hal. Devil's Bargains : tourism in the twentieth-century American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c1998.

Sasuly, Richard. Bookies and Bettors: Two Hundred Years of Gambling. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982.

Schaeffer, Richard W. Turquoise pleasures: featuring photographs of the fabulous hotel-casinos of Las Vegas. Rochester: Silver Screen Publishing Co. 1974.

Schivao, Giovanni. The Truth about the Mafia and Organized Crime in America. New York: Vigo Press, 1962.

Schwartz, David G. Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Shepperson, Wilbur S., ed. East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989.

Skolnick, Jerome. House of Cards. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978

Sloan, Jim. Nevada: True Tales from the Neon Wilderness. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,1993.

Turner, Wallace. Gambler's Money: The New Force in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Vogliotti, Gabriel R. The Girls of Nevada. Seacaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1975.

Winston, Stuart and Harriet Harris. Nation of Gamblers: America's Billion-Dollar-a-Day Habit. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1984.

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