James McManus

James McManus appears in the following:

Move Over Football

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

James McManus, author of Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, says poker is "America's Game."

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Jokers, Poker, Vegas

Saturday, October 02, 2004

Kurt Andersen and novelist-turned-poker champ James McManus talk about art and the allure of gambling. The playwright Freyda Thomas adapted an old French play about a woman in love with a dissolute gambler – and Thomas reveals how her own father’s ruinous gambling informed her work. In the swinging 60’s, ...

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Special Guest: James McManus

Saturday, October 02, 2004

Kurt Andersen and James McManus talk about the art of gambling.

James McManus is a novelist and poet. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Four years ago, Harpers Magazine assigned him to cover the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He decided to ...

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