The Money and the Power - $11.01 - Denton, Sally; Morris, Roger - 9780375701269

The Money and the Power
The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
Denton, Sally
Morris, Roger
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Las Vegasthe name evokes images of divorce and dice, prostitutes and payoffs, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. Now, at the dawn of the new century, this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant sin city, but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life.

The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the citys historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness these illegal activities. Through this lucid and gripping indictment of Las Vegas, Morris and Denton uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history.

BOOK REVIEWS
The history of Vegass dark underside . . . has seldom been so abundantly and compellingly told. The Washington Post Book World

Riveting. . . Absorbing. . . A saga of underworld subculture that intersects with that of government agents, senators, and presidents and ranges from Cuba to Dallas to Watergate.The Wall Street Journal

A must-read. . . . One of the most important non-fiction books published in the U.S. in [a] half century. Los Angeles Times

Something on every page hits like a meat ax. In their unsparing, meticulous reporting, Denton and Morris produce a compelling, important dossier.New York Daily News

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375701265
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375701269
Copyright: 2002
Dewey Decimal: 979.3/135
Library of Congress: BL2002006149
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 479
Paper Weight (lb): 1

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