It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read Card Sharps and Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian
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In a highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural, social and business history, Ann Fabian details the place of gambling in industrializing America. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment, which became entrenched during the nineteenth century. While all these undertakings ran counter to deeply ingrained American--and Protestant--work ethics, only gambling took on a stigma that made other efforts to acquire wealth socially acceptable. Fabian considers here the...
Card Sharps and Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian is 270 pages long, and a total of 67,500 words.
This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 8 minutes to read Card Sharps and Bucket Shops aloud.
Card Sharps and Bucket Shops is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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