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The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas
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Description for The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas
Paperback. This is an account of how some gambler-businessmen grasped Las Vegas's potential as a centre for high-stakes gambling, and turned it from a desert town into a booming holiday mecca. In researching this book, interviews were conducted with many of the surviving players and their associates. Editor(s): Sheehan, Jack. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNSP; WDP; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Las Vegas has been largely shaped by a handful of colourful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gaudy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these ""players"". We discover how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas's potential as a centre for high-stakes gambling, and we read of mobster ""Bugsy"" Siegel's effort to bring to reality another man's dream of a glamorous resort-casino on a then-remote site at the edge of town. Other visionaries like Jay Sarno, Sam Boyd ... Read more
Las Vegas has been largely shaped by a handful of colourful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gaudy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these ""players"". We discover how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas's potential as a centre for high-stakes gambling, and we read of mobster ""Bugsy"" Siegel's effort to bring to reality another man's dream of a glamorous resort-casino on a then-remote site at the edge of town. Other visionaries like Jay Sarno, Sam Boyd ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874173062
SKU
V9780874173062
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