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

Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781909457980)

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Format: Paperback
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Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game by Harris, Martin

Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game

$24.95
Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game by Harris, Martin

Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Martin Harris
ISBN-10: 1909457981
ISBN-13: 9781909457980
Publisher: D&B Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2019
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Martin Harris
By Martin Harris
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Martin Harris is a writer, teacher, and poker reporter who has covered the game for the last dozen years. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University at Bloomington and has taught full- and part-time at the university level for two decades. He currently teaches in the American Studies program at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, where his courses include "Poker in American Film and Culture" and "Tricky Dick: Richard Nixon, Poker, and Politics."

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