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Poker and Pop Culture - Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game (Paperback)
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Poker and Pop Culture - Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game (Paperback)
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Introduced shortly after the United States declared its
independence, poker's growth and development has paralleled that of
America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been
played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final
tables, for matchsticks and millions. ----- First came the hands,
then came the stories -- some true, some pure bluffs, and many in
between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's
Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while
chronicling poker's progress from 19th-century steamboats and
saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: * Poker
on the Mississippi * Poker in the Movies * Poker in the Old West *
Poker on the Newsstand * Poker in the Civil War * Poker in
Literature * Poker on the Bookshelf * Poker in Music * Poker in the
White House * Poker on Television * Poker During Wartime * Poker on
the Computer ----- From Mark Twain to "Dogs Playing Poker" to W.C.
Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to
Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond,
Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural
productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how
the game's portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker's
relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the
game and its significance.
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