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Satan's playground : mobsters and movie stars at America's greatest gaming resort
- Title
- Satan's playground : mobsters and movie stars at America's greatest gaming resort / Paul J. Vanderwood.
- Author
- Vanderwood, Paul J.
- Publication
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 392 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- American encounters/global interactions.
- Uniform Title
- American encounters/global interactions.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The mob strikes the border barons -- Mobs -- Playground of the hemisphere -- Fortuitous breaks -- Border Babylon -- King of border vice -- "They're off!" -- Prohibition's bounty -- The new wave -- Agua Caliente in gestation -- Building Camelot -- Captain Jerry's day -- "Silent" Marty's oration -- Veracity -- Fixes -- Sentencing and censoring -- Hollywood's playground -- "Place your bets!" -- Get the barons! -- Fools and thieves -- A dead cock in the pit -- What ever happened to? -- Ghosts.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2947
- ISBN
- 9780822346913 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822346915 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822347026 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822347024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009043917
- OCLC
- 458583776
- Author
- Vanderwood, Paul J.
- Title
- Satan's playground : mobsters and movie stars at America's greatest gaming resort / Paul J. Vanderwood.
- Imprint
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Series
- American encounters/global interactions.American encounters/global interactions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2947