Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

Conference Participant

gambling and the american moral landscape

NelsonMichael Nelson is Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College in Memphis. He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He teaches courses on U.S. Politics, the American Presidency, and the Constitutional Convention. He also teaches the College’s humanities course, “The Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion,” and coauthored a book about the course, Celebrating the Humanities: A Half Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College (1996). Nelson has published twenty-one books, the most recent of which are The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (2006), The Elections of 2004 (2005), The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002 (2003), and (with John Mason Lyman) Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation (2000). His newest book, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation, will be published in September 2007 by LSU Press.

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