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by Alan Wolfe (Editor); Erik C. Owens (Editor)

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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.

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Additional Essayists:

Dwayne Eugne Carpenter is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Co-Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Boston College.

Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.

Philip J. Cook is ITT/Terry Sanford Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of Economics, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.

Rachel T.A. Croson holds a joint appointment as Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Political and Policy Sciences and as Professor of Organizations, Strategy and International Management in the School of Management, both at the University of Texas at Dallas.

John Dombrink is Professor of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine.

Matthew Fox is an MBA student at the University of Nevada Reno. He is a founding director of Animal House Rescue and Elko County Habitat for Humanity.

William Galston is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.

John P. Hoffmann is Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University.

T. J. Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor-in-Chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review.

Steven Andrew Light is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy at the University of North Dakota.

Richard McGowan, S.J., is Associate Professor of Operations and Strategic Management at Boston College and Research Associate at the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions.

R. Shep Melnick is Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College.

Michael Nelson is Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College in Memphis.

Marc Potenza is Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Division of Substance Abuse), Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, Director of Neuroimaging for the VA MIRECC, and Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women's Health Research at Yale University.

Kathryn R.L. Rand is Floyd B. Sperry Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of North Dakota School of Law, and is Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy.

David A. Skeel, Jr. is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School. Skeel is an expert in bankruptcy and corporate labor law.

William Stuntz is Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law and Vice-Dean for Intellectual Life at Harvard Law School.

James Sundali is an Associate Professor of Managerial Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Kathryn Tanner is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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  • Title Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape
  • Author Alan Wolfe (Editor); Erik C. Owens (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 516
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Baylor University Press, Waco, TX
  • Publication date 2009-07-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781602581951 / 1602581959
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.48 x 1.06 in (22.91 x 16.46 x 2.69 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Gambling - Moral and ethical aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009010370
  • Dewey Decimal Code 175

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 158

About the author

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College. A prolific and esteemed writer and speaker, Wolfe's books include The Future of Liberalism; Does American Democracy Still Work?; and Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Erik C. Owens is Assistant Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Boston College. He lives in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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