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To date, Dr. Schwartz has published three books about gambling history. Read about them here.
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. New York: Gotham, 2006.
Spanning millennia, this award-winning book tracks the history of gambling from crude knucklebones to Internet poker. Fascinating personalities from gambling’s past and long-forgotten games spring from the pages of Roll the Bones.
If you enjoy gambling, you’ll be astounded by the fascinating story of how it has developed with humanity. Read it and learn why the Washington Post has called it “something remarkable,” why it won a 2006 Trippie Award, and why it’s a must-read for the fan of gambling.
Read more about Roll the Bones here.
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Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the Internet. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
Don’t let the cover fool you–this is actually a good book. It traces the past 200 years of anti-gambling legislation in the United States and examines the influences behind the passage of the Wire Act in 1961. This anti-gambling law is still used to stifle legal Internet gaming in the United States.
With chapters on general American legal gambling history and Internet gaming, it puts the current debate over online gambling into perspective.
Read more about Cutting the Wire here.
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Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Developed from Schwartz’s doctoral dissertation in history, this looks at the forces that shaped the rise of the commercial casino industry in the United States. Its thesis, that the self-contained nature of casino resorts renders them inherently anti-urban, raises profound questions for the use of casinos as urban redevelopment tools.
Read more about Suburban Xanadu here.
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