The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

By Angelo DePalma, David J. Kroll, Steven Bratman

Las Vegas--the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. 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 city's 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. Now 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037540130X
• ISBN13: 9780375401305
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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