Fast company
by Jon Bradshaw
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Author: Jon BradshawEdition: Unknown Binding
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1975
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 239
Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press
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Book Review: First-rate literary journalism
Summary: 5 Stars
This forgotten book deserves attention. Critics have always loved it, but the unfortunate title ("Fast Company: How Six Master Gamblers Defy the Odds--And Always Win") confused the reading public. It never sold well. It is NOT a collection of get-rich-quick drivel. It's a group of incredibly poignant, expertly delivered portraits of some of the most colorful professional hustlers of the 20th Century.
At once informative, funny, and deeply moving, Fast Company is one of two favorite books on my extensive shelf of gambling titles. If you're at all curious about the subject, you must buy it.
Summary of Fast company
Poker players Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats; and backgammon player Tim Holland have come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact. The dramatic descriptions of the ambience and the games are riveting, but more intriguingly, Jon Bradshaw deftly probes these gamblers? minds and hearts as he attempts to define what makes some men winners and most losers.
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