The Money and the Power

The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

By: Sally Denton, Roger Morris

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Paperback | 12 March 2002

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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.

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"The history of Vegas's 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

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Prologue: First City of the Twenty-first Century	p. 3
The Juice	p. 17
Meyer Lansky: The Racketeer as Chairman of the Board	p. 21
Benny Binion: The Outlaw as Icon	p. 30
Pat McCarran: The Democrat as Autocrat	p. 38
Bugsy Siegel: The Executioner as Entrepreneur	p. 49
Hank Greenspun: The Hustler as Conscience	p. 59
Estes Kefauver: The Opportunist as Prophet	p. 75
City of Fronts	p. 87
"Beyond This Place There Be Dragons"	p. 91
"This Alliance of Gamblers, Gangsters, and Government"	p. 105
"Temple Town of the American Dream"	p. 127
"Character Loans"	p. 149
American Mecca	p. 171
A Party in Carson City	p. 179
An Enemy Too Far Within	p. 217
"Cleaning Out the Sucker"	p. 256
High Rollers	p. 291
One Last Cruise	p. 331
"A Joint's a Joint"	p. 358
Epilogue: Shadow Capital	p. 390
Notes	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 441
Acknowledgments	p. 459
Index	p. 463
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