1. Introduction
2. Where are we now? : gambling today
Extent and nature of legal gambling
Conclusion
3. New wine in old bottles
The colonists
Nineteenth-century gambling
Conclusion
4. Sin, vice, and gangsters
New York casinos
Gambling as a business : organized crime
Conclusion
5. Gambling as a legitimate industry
The phantom arrives
William F. Harrah of Reno
Las Vegas : adult Disney World
Atlantic City : gambling on the Boardwalk
Conclusion
6. The dam bursts : Indian gambling and gambling vessels
The red man enters
Roll 'em on the river : return of the riverboats?
Conclusion
7. Gambling-lotteries : state-run games of chance
Nature and extent
Permission : you may
The games people play : the modern lottery
Please do : advertising
8. The web of gambling
Whate is the Internet?
Regulating the web
Action by the states
Action by the Federal government
The business of online wagering
Conclusion
9. Intellectualizing the action : why people gamble
Compulsive gambling
Pathological gambling
Emerging definitions
Square pegs in round holes : gambling theories
Treatment models
Benefiting from people's addictions
Conclusions
10. Effects on special populations
Youth gambling
College gambling
Senior citizens gambling
Women
11. Effects on communities
He says : the American Gaming Association
She says : anti-gambling activist
Conclusion
12. Enter the Federal Commission
Introduction
1996 National Gambling Impact Study Commission
Commission recommendations
Conclusion
13. Enough is enough
Introduction
Market saturation
Competition
Gambling-lotteries
Convenience/neighborhood gambling
Further signs of trouble
Conclusion.