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Article: BOOKMARKS Shuffling through books by Chicagoans
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2009
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It was a French parlor game with roots in China and the Middle
East, but it took American ingenuity and spirit to turn it into a
national craze.
We're talking about poker, of course. And the storyteller of this
game of cheaters and shysters, of presidents and generals, of
businessmen and gamblers is an elegant Chicagoan whose memoir about
playing poker in a World Series championship, "Positively Fifth
Street," became a bestseller in 2003.
I was introduced to James McManus at a party in Chicago. After
some opening chit-chat, I asked him about his next book, "Cowboys
Full: The Story of Poker."
Do you know, he said, that men in the Stone Age played a game of
chance -- well, gambled -- with ...
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