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Article Excerpt
Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America, by Edward A. Morse and Ernest P. Goss. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Paperback: ISBN 978 472 06965 1, $29.95. 344 pages.
Seeking to cash in on what appears to be an almost insatiable level of consumer demand, state governments and Indian Nations have fueled an explosion in gambling activities in this country over the last quarter century. One prominent feature of this growth has been the proliferation of casinos and racinos, horse tracks with slot machines and/or table games, now found in well over half the American states. What are the benefits and costs of casino gambling in the states, and what are the legal conditions that give rise to these outcomes? In Governing Fortune, a well-executed and thorough piece of research, Morse and Goss seek to answer these two basic questions.
Although spanning twelve chapters, Governing Fortune is composed of two distinct parts,...
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