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Fate's Bookie
How The Lottery Shaped The World
The History Press Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 192 pages
Size: 215x123 mm
ISBN: 9780750949729
ISBN-10: 0750949724
List price: £9.99
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Fate's Bookie
Tells the story of the lottery from its Ancient Greek origins, through the activities of extraordinary personalities such as Casanova, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I, the backlash of the moralists such as Wilberforce and the corruption of the Louisiana State Lottery, to its use in allocating school places and public appointments.

