Download or read book A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics written by Bruce L. Mouser and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Mouser shows, Scott spent his life figuring out--and satisfying--men's interests with liquor, gambling, and women, and . . . [he] refused to be complicit in backing politicians who took him and the broader base of first-generation black voters for dupes. . . . Scott saw the political game for what it was: a game of power."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.