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Store Events - November 23, 7:00 p.m.
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Time: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Title of Event: JIM McMANUS
JIM McMANUS, local author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, signs his new book, Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global phenomenon.
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
by
McManus, James
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$16.00
Published: Picador USA, 2004
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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In the spring of 2000," Harper's Magazine" sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend. But when McManus arrives, the lure of the tables compels him to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. This is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament--the players, the hand-to-hand combat, his own unlikely progress in it--and the delightfully seedy carnival atmosphere that surrounds it." Positively Fifth Street" is a high-stakes adventure and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"--the eros and logistics of our competitive instincts.
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