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The Era of Seabiscuit - Resources
Subject Guide
The purpose of a subject research guide is to provide students
with a brief list of library resources pertinent to a particular
area of study. Reference sources and works in the Circulating
Collection are given along with their Call
Number, so that you can locate them easily.
Periodical Index Databases listed are our most popular. To
see a full roster of our databases, go to our database
page.
Internet Web Sites have been chosen by our library staff,
and most are educational or organizational sites. There are some
appropriate commercial sites included here also. Be aware that all
materials, print and non-print, including all web sites should be
evaluated for usefulness. Evaluation criteria should include the
accuracy, authority, objectivity currency and coverage of the document.
For online guides to writing and grammar click here.
Remember that the Jonathan Edwards Library has an extensive collection
of books on writing and grammar.
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For access from on campus only. To access from home, click HERE
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Internet Web Sites
Reference
Resources
American History and Social
Sciences
Annals of America, Volume 15. 1929 - 1939 : The
Great Depression. Ref E 173 A793
Dictionary of American History. Ref
E174 .D52 2003. Vol. 1 - 10
Encyclopedia of American
Economic History: Studies of the principal movements and ideas.
Ref. HC 103 E52 v. 1 - 3
Encyclopedia of American
Social History, Ref HN57 .E58 1993
Encyclopedia of American Studies,
Ref. E169.1 .E625 2001., vol. 1-4
Encyclopedia of Sociology,
Ref. HM425 .E52000, v. 1 - 5
Gordon, Lois & Alan Gordon. American Chronicle:
Year by year through the twentieth cenury. Ref
E169.1 .G664 1999
Handbook of American women's
history, Ref HQ 1410 .H36 2000
History of American Presidental
Elections, Ref E183 S28
Johnson, Thomas H. The Oxford
Companion to American History. Ref E174 J6
The Reader's Companion to
American History. Ref. E174 .R43 1991
Sifakis, Carl.
The Encyclopedia of American Crime.
Ref JV6789 /S54 2001 Vol. 1- 2
Biography
American National Biography. Ref CT213 .A68
2002 v.1 -24, & suppl.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography,
Ref CT 213 .C36 1995
Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ref
CT103 .E56 V1-21
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General 20th Century History
Chronicle of World History: 1901 - 1998: The modern
world, Ref D .M39 1999 v.3
Dictionary of 20th century European History, Ref
D424 .T685 1999
Dictionray of World History,
Ref D 20 .H87 1993
Facts on File Dictionary o f 20th century history,
Ref D419 P27
Larousse Encyclopedia of Monder History from 1500
to the present day, Ref D209 H5153
Literature
Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, Ref
PS94 .L83 1986 Ref PS94 .L83 1986
Contemporary Literary Criticism,
Ref PN 771 .C59 , v 1- 100
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 11, American
Humorists, 1800-1950. Ref PS21 D5 v.11.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 9, American
Novelists, 1910-1945, Ref PS21 D5 v.9
Hart, James. The Oxford Companion to American
Literature. Ref. PS21 H3 1983
A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American
Literature, Vols. 1-III, Ref PS221 C8 1969
Literary History of the United States: Bibliography,
Ref. PS88 L522 1974 v. 2
Literary History of the United States: History.
Ref. PS88 L522 1974 v. 1
The Oxford Companion to women's writing in the
United States. Ref PS147 .O94 1995
Survey of american Poetry, Volume VIII, Interval
Between World Wars: 1920 - 1939. Ref PS 507
S827 1986 v.8
Twentieth Century Literary
Criticism, Ref PN 771 .G27 , v 1- 70
West, Aberjhani and Sandra West,
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Ref
PS 153 .N5 A24 2003
Media, Culture and the
Arts
Boardman, Gerald. Oxford Companion to American
Theatre. Ref PN2220 .B6 1984
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, Ref
PN2220 C35 1993
Cummings, Paul. Dictionary of Contemporary American
Artists, Ref N6512 .C854 1994
Dictionary of Art, Ref N31
.D5 1996 V. 1 - 34
Green, Stanley. Encyclopedia of the musical film.
Ref PN1995.9 M86 G7
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Ref
ML102 .P66 f84 1992., v. 1 - 4
Hischak, Thomas S. The Theatergoer's Almanac: A
collection of lists, people, history and commentary on the American
theatre. Ref PN2266 .H53 1997
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
Ref PN 1997.8 .I58 1990, v. 1-4
Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: An encyclopedia
of the golden age of American song. Ref ML102
.P66 j37 2003
Katz, Ephraim, The Film Encyclopedia, Ref
PN 1993.45 .K34 2001
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Ref
ML101 .U6 N48 1986 Vol. 1 - 2
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
Ref ML 100 .N48 2001, v. 1 - 25
The New York Public Library Boook of Popular Americana,
Ref E 169.1 .T83 1994
Sennett, Ted. Great Movie Directors. Ref
PN 1998 .A2 S43 1986
Shipman, David, The Story of Cinema.
Ref PN 1993.5 A1 S52 1984
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Sports & Horses
Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia. Ref
GV865 .A1 B374 2000
The Baseball Encyclopedia. Ref
GV877 .B27 1993
Edwards, Elwyn Hartley. The new Encyclopedia of
the Horse. Ref SF285 E345 2000
Menke, Frank G. , The Encyclopedia of Sports. Ref.
GV567 M46 1978
Self, Margaret Cabell. The Horseman's Encylcopedia.
Ref SF278 S4 1963
Circulating
Collection
The Great Depression
DePastino, Todd. Citizen hobo : how a century of homelessness
shaped America, HV4504.D47 2003
Garraty, John A., The Great Depression : an inquiry into the
causes, course, and consequences of the worldwide depression of
the nineteen-thirties, as seen by contemporaries and in the light
of history HB3717 1929 .G36 1986
Hoover, Herbert. Memoirs. E802.H7
v. 1
Kusmer, Kenneth. Down & out, on the road : the homeless
in American history, HV4504.K87 2003
McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression : America, 1929-1941
806 .M43 1993
Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's dangers; the life of Nate Shaw
HD1478.U6 S5
Shannon, David A. The Great Depression, HC106.3
.S364
The shattered dream; Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
1970 E801 .S6
Smith, Gene. The shattered dream; Herbert Hoover and the Great
Depression 1970. E801 .S6
Terkel, Studs. Hard times; an oral history of the Great Depression
E806 .T45
Tillman, Ray M. The transformation of U.S. unions. HD6508.
T72 1999
Warren, Harris Gaylord. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.
E801 .W28
Wecter, Dixon. The age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941
. E806 .W43 1960
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Federal
Work Programs
Abramovitz, Mimi. Regulating the lives of women, social welfare
policy from colonial times to the present. HV699
.A424 1988
Art for the millions; essays from the 1930s by artists and administrators
of the WPA Federal Art Project, edited, and with an introduction,
by Francis V. O'Connor. N8838
.O25
DeNoon, Christopher. Posters of the WPA. NC1807.U5
D413 1987
Hurston, Zora Neale. Go gator and muddy the water : writings
by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' Project ; edited
and with a biographical essay by Pamela Bordelon. GR111.A47H84
1999
The Index of American Design. OVERSIZE
NK1403 .C5
Lincoln, Bill Ganzel. Dust bowl descent TR820.5
.G36 1984
Scheiber, Sylvester J. & John B. Shoven. The real deal :
the history and future of social security HD7125.S328
1999
Trattner, Walter I. From poor law to welfare state : a history
of social welfare in America. HV91.T7 1999
International
Events
Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt : champion of freedom
E807.B58 2003
Bullock, Alan. World Leaders: Hitler and Stalin : parallel lives.
DD247.H5 B79 1992
Burns, Richard Dean & Edward M. Bennett. Diplomats in crisis
: United States-Chinese-Japanese relations, 1919-1941. JX1662
.D55
Evans, Richard J. The coming of the Third Reich. DD221.E94
2004
Hamby, Alonzo L. For the survival of democracy : Franklin Roosevelt
and the world crisis of the 1930s, E806.H293
2004
Herzstein, Robert Edwin. Roosevelt & Hitler : prelude to
war E806 .H48 1989
Howson, Gerald. Arms for Spain : the untold story of the Spanish
Civil War DP269.8.E68H68 1999
Jackson, Robert H. That man : an insider's portrait of Franklin
D. Roosevelt E807.J36 2003
Kuhl, Stefan, The Nazi connection : eugenics, American racism,
and German national socialism, HQ755.5.U5K84
2002
Stalin, order through terror, DK267 .C283313
Taylor, F. Jay. The United States and the Spanish Civil War.
E183.8.S7 T3 1971
Vamberto, Morais, A short history of anti-Semitism, DS145
.M6713 1976
Film and
Music of the Thirties
Adamson, Joe Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo; a history
of the Marx Brothers and a satire on the rest of the world,
PN2297.M3 A4
The American comedy box, 1915-1994 [sound recording] PN
1991.8 .C65 A43 1995 v. 1 - 4
Bigband [sound recording] MJ COLL
JRM
Citron, Stephen. Noel and George: the sophisticates. ML390
.C585 1993
Collier, James Lincoln . Benny Goodman and the Swing Era ML422.G65
C6 1989
Cray, Ed. Ramblin' man : the life and times of Woody Guthrie
ML419.G852C73 2004
Curtis, James. W.C. Fields : a biography . PN2287.F45C87
2003
Entertaining America : Jews, movies, and broadcasting. edited
by J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler PN1590.J48E58
2003
Gallagher, Tag. John Ford : the man and his films, PN1998.A3
F5698 1986
Gershwin, George. Gershwin Live! [sound recording] MA
VAUGH GLv77
Gone with the wind [videorecording] / Selznick International
Pictures New York] : PN 1997 G59 1990 v.1v.
2
Jefferson, Vincent Terrance. Radio programs, 1924-1984 : a
catalog of over 1800 shows. PN1991.9.T47
1999
Jewell, Derek. A Portrait of Duke Ellington. ML410.
E44 J5
Mast, Gerald. A short history of the movies PN1993.5.A1
M39 1976
Sandler, Keving. Reading the rabbit : explorations in Warner
Bros. animation NC1766.U52W37365 1998
Schickel, Richard. James Cagney : a celebration. PN2287.C23
S35 1985
Schuller, Gunther. The swing era : the development of jazz,
1930-1945. ML3506 .S36 1968 vol. 2
Terkel, Studs. Giants of jazz ML385.T45
2002
Walser, Robert. Keeping time : readings in jazz history ML3507.K4
1999
Ziegfeld follies [videorecording] PN1995.9.M86Z5
1987
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Popular Culture and the
Media
Burness, Tad. Cars of the early thirties. TL23
. B79 1970
Byrd, Richard. Alone. G875 .B9 A2
Dick, Harold G. The golden age of the great pasenger airships.
TL 659 . G7 D53 1985
Douglas, Susan J. Listening in : radio and the American imagination,
from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard
Stern. He8698 . D68 1999
Hunt, Marsha. The way we wore:styles of the 1930 and 40's and
our world since then. OVERSIZE GT615 . H86
1993
Kendrick, Alexander. Prime time; the life of Edwin
R. Murrow. PN4874. M89 K4
Photography
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans at work : 745 photographs together
with documents selected from letters, memoranda, interviews, notes
with an essay by Jerry L. Thompson. TR820.5
.E89 1982
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. TR653 .E93
Evans, Walker. The Years of bitterness and pride : Farm Security
Administration Walker Evans FSA photographs, 1935-1943 HC106.3
.Y4
Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. With an introductory essay by
George P. Elliott. TR140.L3 N4
Parks, Gordan. A poet and his camera. TR654
.P3A
Parks, Gordan. The choice of weapons: Gordan Parks, PS3566.A73
C5
Rothstein, Arthur. Documentary photography. TR820.5
.R68 1986
Shahn, Ben. Ben Shahn, photographer; an album from the thirties.
OVERSIZE TR653 .S5 1973
Literature
The American writer and the great depression Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill,
[1966] PS536 .S9
Amory, Cleveland and Frederic Bradlee. Vanity fair, selections
from America's most memorable magazine OVERSIZE
PS536 .V3
Caldwell, Erskine. God's little acre. PS3505.A322
G6
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco road. PS3505.A322
T6 1959
Chandler, Raymond. Stories and early novels. PS
3505. H3224 A6 1995b.
Crime novels: American noir of the 1930's and 40's, PS648.
D4C695 1997
Colwey, Malcom. The dream of the golden mountains : remembering
the 1930's. PS3505.O956 Z464 1980
Farrell, James T. Studs Lonigan PS3511.
A738 S7 1938
Griffin, Peter. Along with youth : Hemingway, the early years.
PS3515.E37 Z6114 1985
Hammett, Dahielle. The Maltese falcon, & The Thin Man. PS3615.
A4347 M3 1964
Hemingway, Ernest. Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms [computer
file] / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Net
Library- E- Book
Hemingway, Ernest. To Have or Have Not. PS3515.E37 T6 1937
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the wind PS3525.I972
G66 1993
Salzman, Jack. Years of protest; a collection of American writings
of the 1930's. PS659 .S2
Steinbeck, John. The grapes of wrath and other writings. PS3537.T3234A6
1996
Steinbeck, John. Novels and stories, 1932-1937. PS3537.T3234A6
1994
Thurber, James. Writings and drawings James Thurber. PS3539.H94A6
1996
Wilson, Edmund. The thirties : from notebooks and diaries of
the period PS3545.I6245 Z535 1980
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Sports
Alexander, Charles C. Our game : an American baseball history
GV863.A1 A4 1991
Baker, William J. Jesse Owens : an American life GV697.O9
B35 1986
Hietala, Thomas R. The fight of the century : Jack Johnson, Joe
Louis, and the struggle for racial equality
GV1131.H64 2002
Louis, Joe. My life story by Joe Louis. GV1132.L6
A3
Stout, Glenn and Richard A. Johnson. Red Sox century : one hundred
years of Red Sox baseball GV875.B62S76 2000
Ward, Geoffrey. Baseball : an illustrated history narrative GV863.A1
W37 1994
Horse Racing
Budiansky, Stephen. The Nature of Horses. SF285
B798 1997
Edwards, Elwyn Hartley. The Ultimate Horse Book. SF277
.E3 1991
Edwards, Elwyn Hartley and Candida Geddes. The Complete Horsebook.
SF285 C574 1988
Price, Stephen D. The greatest horse stories ever told. SF301.G72
2001
Smiley, Jane. A year at the races : reflections on horses, humans,
love, money and luck New York SF335.5.S56
2004
Smiley, Jane. Horse heaven PS3569.M39H67
2000
Smith, Sharon B. The complete idiot's guide to betting on horse
[Net Library - E-Book]
Internet Sites
  
The American Memory
Project Sites - These sites have been put together through
the Library of Congress, our country's national library and are
a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and
culture of the United States. Click on the highlighted site of interest:
The American Memory Project - California Folk Music from the 1930's
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
"The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic
field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs,
drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic
and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California."
The American
Memory Project - The Great Depression
Photographs from by many leading photographers documenting the Great
Depression.
The
American Memory Project - Voices from the Dustbowl This site
includes sound recordings, text and archival photographs of farmers,
dust bowl refugees and itinerant musicians from the 1930's.
The
American Memory Project - Writers Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Featured here are manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project.
You can search for documents by State, for instance Oregon, which
has a collection of first-person oral histories collected during
the Great Depression. Link
to WPA Theater resources.
Museum of the City
of New York Pages - Featured here are photographic online
exhibits pertaining to the period from the Great Depression through
1940.
Berenice
Abbott: Changing New York, The Complete WPA Project -Online Exhibit
http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/abbott/abbott.htm
This exhibit, available only online, presents a comprehensive analysis
of Abbott’s exceptional photographic study of New York City,
which she made for the Federal Art Project from 1935 to1939.
New York Before
the War: The Work Projects - Federal Arts Project - Online Exhibit
http://www.mcny.org/Research/FAP/wpa.htm
Brief description of the WPA project and a substantial collection
of negatives documenting activity in New York City during the 1930's.
Other Sites:
An A - Z listing of mostly academic sites providing information
on the history, literature, sports and culture of the nineteen thirties
in America.
American Experience
: Surviving the Dustbow
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/
Online audio clips, transcripts of interviews, as well as bibliographies,
maps and timeline are provided in this companion website to the
PBS television program by the same name.
Baseball
- Before the War
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Brief description of baseball during the era of Babe Ruth.
Center for Steinbeck
Studies
http://www2.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/
Excellent scholarly site for the study of Steinbeck life and work,
created by the Steinbeck Center at San Jose State University in
California.
History
of Comic Art in America
http://www.comic-art.com/history/history1.htm
A commercial site, but one that offers well researched text and
crisp images. Parts 2 - 4 cover the 1930's.
History E
Search - The Roaring 20's and the 1930's
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
While a commercial site, HistoreSearch provides materials previewed
for academic relevance, and was created for students and history
teachers. You will find links to discussions on New Deal economics,
the plight of African Americans during this period, films of the
thirties, the Chicago World's Faire and much more. Be aware though,
that some sites that you will be linked to do have advertisements
and pop-up boxes.
International Museum
of Cartoon Art
http://www.cartoon.org/home.htm
Best to search by artist. See also Sources
for General Information on Comic Books.
Joe Louis
: The Official Site
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/louis/louis.html
Another commercial site, but one that is worth looking at for information
pertaining to this great boxer of the 1930's and 40's. Another site,
featuring a brief but pertinent article on Louis, is ESPN's.
Kingswood College
- American Cultural History: 1930 - 39
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html
Very good general introduction to the decade, featuring keywords
defined, statistics, photographs and additional links. (Note: texts
mentioned and their location are not for this library.)
Liberalism
at Highnoon - Lectures on the New Deal
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture19.html
Created by Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History
William and Produced by P. Tishler, for the University of Wisconsin
system, this online class discussion includes photographs and additional
links. Lectures 20 and 21 also contain material on this period.
Literary
Resources - American
http://newark.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Lit/american.html
While all periods are given here, you can search by author or browse
the subjects given. Maintained at Rutgers University.
Modern
American Poetry - The Great Depression
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/depression.htm
From the wonderful Modern American Poetry site, these pages provide
excellent historical and cultural background to the Great Depression
with corresponding maps, photographs and art. Links are provided
to the works of such Depression era poets as Edwin Rolfe, Genevieve
Taggard, Langston Hughes, Jonathan Beecher, Richard Wright, Tillie
Olson, Muriel Rukeyser and Sol Funaroff.
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Movies
of the 1930's
http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history
General site.
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
This site,an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s,
features over 900 articles, speeches and letters and over 5,000
photographs. There is a search
engine and archival materials also. The New Deal Network is
sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and is
funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Pacific
Film Archives
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/cinefiles/index.html
Searchable database of information on films contained in the collection,
including contains reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program
notes.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature : A Research and Reference Guide
- An Ongoing Project
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben
This outstanding site is part of a larger, award winning site, created
and maintained by Professor Paul Reuben at the State University
of California. Listed here are all the major authors of note from
the early 20th century, including Steinbeck, Hemingway, Elliot,
Faukner, Dos Passos, Anderson and McCarthy. Lists of primary works
by each author are given, along with biographical materials, critical
bibliographies, and links to selected sites.
Radio and
Television History Sites
http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/links/histsites.htm
University of North Texas site providing links.
Sliding
into the Great Depression
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
Academic discussion of the economics behind the great crash by the
Harvard educated, Associate Professor of Economics at University
of California, Brad DeLong.
Songs
of the Great Depression
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history.html
Three of the more popular songs, compiled by a professor at City
University of New York.
TimeLine
of the Great Depression
http://mirrors.korpios.org/resurgent/Timeline.htm
This timeline is part of a larger page on The
Great Depression.
United
States Information Agency - About the USA: The Great Depression
http://www.usinfo.pl/aboutusa/history/depression.htm
While this site was created by US Information Agency and the Mission
to Poland, it covers the history of the Depression, including the
Wall Street crash and e-texts of FDR's Fireside chats and statements
on Social Security.
Webster's
New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html
Discussion of the role and impact of Federal cultural programs such
as PWAP, FERA, WPA, the Federal Art Project, Writers Project, Theater
Project, and more. This site is part of the World Wide Web center
of The Institute for Cultural Democracy and is recommended as a
resource by the Library of Congress.
WWW: Virtual
History - Film History
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/Index.html
Includes links to such sites as
The News Film Library, University of SouthCarolina which houses
a huge collection of Fox Movietonews newsreels from the 1930's,
as well as
WWW:
Virtual History - 1930's
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html
Another important directory of sites, the Virtual History sites
are housed and maintained by various academic institutions around
the country. This site on the 1930's run by the Kansas Heritage
Group at the University of Kansas. It includes links to gateways
and directories, research centers as well as to general history
of the Depression sites.
Horse Racing
 American
Experience - Seabiscuit
An online companion piece to the television documentary on Seabiscuit,
this site features audio clips, interviews, program transcript,
list of primary sources, suggested readings, time line and biographical
material on Charles Howard, Tom Smith and on the jockeys of the
era.
Horse
Racing History - Index
http://sportsfacts.net/history/horse_racing/horse_racing_index.html
Internationals site, so you will have to scroll down for the Kentucky
Derby and Triple Crown information.
Kentucky
Horseracing History
http://www.kdla.ky.gov/researchlinks/KY.htm#KHRH
A number of links are given here to histories of the Triple Crown
and to the Derby. This site is maintained by Kentucky Department
for Libraries.
Sports
Betting - Parimutuel Gambling
http://www.fact-index.com/p/pa/parimutuel_gambling.html
Brief description of this form of gambling. Also included here are
links to descriptions of Bet exchange, Bookmaking and Spread betting.
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