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Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game by Martin Harris EPUB

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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