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The Lottery: A New England Horror Story

Essays, How Gambling Impacts Democratic Values, Lotteries

In this 1990 article from New England Monthly, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch gives an overview of the development of state lotteries in New England and the danger this poses to our democracy.

The Lottery – A New England Horror Story by Taylor Branch

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