{"title":"Jonathan D. Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan D. Cohen's works offer a compelling blend of history and personal narrative, inviting readers into moments of transformation and challenge. His storytelling captures the essence of human experience against complex backdrops, whether exploring military history or the pursuit of dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside historical insight, Cohen also explores culinary themes, weaving food and culture into his narratives. 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One out of every five American adults gambled on sports in 2023, amounting to $121 billion, more than they spent on movies and video games combined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rise of online sports gambling—the immediacy of betting with your phone, the ability of the companies to target users, the dynamic pricing and offers based on how good or bad of a gambler you are—has produced a public health crisis marked by addiction and far too many people, particularly young men, gambling more than they can afford to lose. Under intense lobbying from the gaming industry, states have created a system built around profit for sportsbooks, not the well-being of players.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLosing Big\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Jonathan D. Cohen lays out the astonishing emergence of online sports gambling, from sportsbook executives drafting legislation to an addicted gambler confessing their $300,000 losses. 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Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor a Dollar and a Dream\u003c\/em\u003e shows how, in an era of surging inequality and stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating a new source of revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven as evidence emerged that lotteries only provided a small percentage of state revenue, and even as data mounted about their appeal to the poor, states kept passing them and kept adding new games, desperate for their longshot gamble to pay off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor a Dollar and a Dream\u003c\/em\u003e charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934030971116,"sku":"9780197604885","price":98.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780197604885-for-a-dollar-and-a-dream.jpg?v=1783891332"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/jonathan-d-cohen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}