America is the Land of Violence & Vice — and That’s OK

A Trip Through American Rascality: Gambling, Booze, & Crime from Vicksburg to Vegas

Brent L. Smith

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“They delight in their present low, lazy, sluttish, heathenish, hellish life, and seem not desirous of changing it.”
— Rev. Charles Woodmason, 1766

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