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The Telephone Booth Indian with Oliver Roeder
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The Telephone Booth Indian with Oliver Roeder

AJ Liebling among the tinhorns

Scrabble player, NYT crossword constructor, puzzle maker, backgammon hustler, economics PhD, Harvard fellow and all-around brilliant writer Oliver Roeder from the Financial Times joins me this week to discuss AJ Liebling’s 1942 collection The Telephone Booth Indian, which includes profiles of carnies, cutmen and con artists - as well as some of the country’s biggest bookies and gamblers. Presented by InGame.com.

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Buy Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder by clicking here.

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