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Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise and Fall of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fate of Governor Edwin Edwards Paperback - 2002
by Tyler Bridges
Louisiana is populated by Cajuns, Creoles, rednecks, and bible-thumpers. Louisiana is also excessively corrupt. "Bad Bet on the Bayou" tells what happened when a corrupt industry came to a corrupt state.
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The large crowd at the craps table at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was whooping it up.
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- Title Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise and Fall of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fate of Governor Edwin Edwards
- Author Tyler Bridges
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-05-15
- ISBN 9780374528546 / 0374528543
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects Political corruption - Louisiana, Gambling - Louisiana
- Dewey Decimal Code 795.097
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