Picturing Las Vegas

Brand: Gibbs Smith

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UPC:
9781423604884
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
10/1/2009
Author:
Linda Chase
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Product Overview

Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells the story of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption and greed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope.

From its hardscrabble origins, to the Golden Age of the Rat Pack, to todays mind-blowing theme-park casinos, Las Vegas is the city that has it all. Mobsters. Mormons. Elvis and Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy. Its a place where change is the one constant, and where the pursuit of happiness is the only law. In the words of writer Chuck Palahniuk, its the place that looks the way youd imagine heaven must look at night.

Linda Chase is the author of Surfing Women of the Waves and grew up in Las Vegas. She lives in California.
Explores the fascinating story of Sin City, from its origins as a desert outpost to todays eye-popping fantasyland