Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond by David Schwartz
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Textbook (Paperback - New Edition)
- 243pp
- Sales Rank: 548,271
Textbook Information
- ISBN-13: 9780415935579
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 243pp
- Sales Rank: 548,271
- ISBN-13: 9780415935579
- ISBN: 0415935571
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
Synopsis
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on U.S. cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II, and now most Americans live within a four-hour drive of a casino. What explains the success of places like Las Vegas? The self-contained casino resort removes gambling and its social problems from cities and provides Americans the comfort of gambling in a setting matched to their suburban lifestyle. In a detailed look at the growth of the earliest casino resorts to the "pleasure palaces" and riverboat casinos of today, Suburban Xanadu locates the rise of the casino resort in suburbanization and the significance of this development for today.
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Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyondby Anonymous
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July 06, 2003: This book tells the complete story of how casinos evolved in America. A lot of books about casinos just repeat rumors, but this one is well researched and full of facts. I learned a lot and look at casinos much differently now. I live in Vegas and it's great to see someone finally get the history right.
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyondby Anonymous
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June 25, 2003: Las Vegas history aficionados are in for a treat. This engaging and carefully crafted study of the development of the casino resort in Las Vegas goes far beyond the sensationalistic treatment common to most works that deal with Sin City. It is not, however, simply a book on Las Vegas or a nostalgic look at some long since imploded casino/hotels found only in faded black and white photographs. It is a serious study that considers how gambling, once considered a national evil in the US, was sanitized, legitimized and made palatable to the masses in the context of the casino resort in Las Vegas with its attendant swimming pool, gourmet restaurant, and entertainment showroom. The author skillfully weaves this premise around a history of Las Vegas and examines how this development made it possible for gambling and casino resorts to spread throughout the US. Along the way, he refutes some of the most commonly held assumptions about Las Vegas history (ie Bugsy created Las Vegas and Howard brought corporate legitimacy to Las Vegas) with solid arguments and original research. Engagingly written, the author?s witty and irreverent writing style makes Suburban Xanadu a good read, and it is also worth pointing out that the photographs used in the text are not the same ones used in every other book on Las Vegas. All in all, probably one of the most original and creative works on Las Vegas to come out in recent years.
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