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Playing the Numbers reviewed in the Journal of Urban History

January 7, 2016 Stephen Robertson Leave a comment

F1.medium Matthew Vaz, a lecturer in the History Department at the City College of New York, City University of New York reviews Playing the Numbers in a review essay titled “Gambling, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Community” that appears in the Journal of Urban History 41, 6 (2015): 1152-1159

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