Conference Participant
gambling and the american moral lanscape
T. J. Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor-in-Chief of the Raritan Quarterly Review. He earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. from Yale. His research interests include U.S. cultural and intellectual history, comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, and folklore and folk beliefs. Selected publications include Something for Nothing: Luck in America (Viking Penguin, 2003); Fables of Abundance: a Cultural History of Advertising in America (Basic Books, 1994); and No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Pantheon, 1981; reissued by Chicago, 1994; Japanese translation by Shohakusha Publishing, forthcoming).
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