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5) War of the godfathers: the bloody confrontation of the Chicago and New York families for Las Vegas
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school’s basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack’s mom is arrested for their family’s ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family’s chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something’s not right. His mom was sold...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former governor traces his upbringing in a Las Vegas under mob control, his father's rise to a businessman, his own pursuits in law and politics, and his son's achievements as Nevada's Secretary of State.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Born in Cuba, Jose Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle-hardened in Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many others, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A luxury casino bombing on the Vegas strip is connected to political power grabs that embroil a high-stakes poker player, a cocktail waitress, an Italian tourist and a Mormon journalist in a fight for the city’s survival.
On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the...
Author
Publisher
Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In What Stays in Vegas, journalist Adam Tanner exposes the greatest threat to privacy today. It's not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers and other firms are gathering data behind the scenes with little oversightfrom anyone. "This is the information age, and information is power!" screamed DocuSearch, "America's Premier Resource for Private Investigator Searches & Lookups" in 1996-and they were right. In...
20) Discovering vintage Las Vegas: a guide to the city's timeless shops, restaurants, casinos and more
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Discovering Vintage Las Vegas takes you back in time to all of the timeless classic spots this city has to offer. The book spotlights the charming stories that tell you what each place is like now and how it got that way from classic restaurants to shops to other establishments like the casinos that still thrive today and evoke the unique character of the city. They're all still around--but they won't be around forever. Start reading, and start your...
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