Author: Rena Bulkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028608785
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Las Vegas
Author: Rena Bulkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028608785
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028608785
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Arizona
Author: Jane Aukshunas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028608754
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028608754
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Mexico
Author: Marita Adair
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028604992
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028604992
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Frommer's Las Vegas, 1993-1994
Author: Rena Bulkin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780671846831
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
America's number one convention center is covered in this guide for millions of business travelers.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780671846831
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
America's number one convention center is covered in this guide for millions of business travelers.
Bright Light City
Author: Larry Gragg
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous "Viva!" Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, Gragg identifies changing trends in the city's portraits. Until the 1940s, boosters promoted it as the "last frontier town," a place where prospectors and cowboys enjoyed liquor, women, and wide-open gambling. Then in the early 1950s commentators increasingly characterized Las Vegas as a sophisticated resort city in the desert, and ever since then journalists, filmmakers, and novelists have depicted a city largely built by organized crime and featuring non-stop entertainment, gambling, luxury, and, of course, beautiful-and available-women. In Gragg's narrative, these images form a kaleidoscope of lights, sounds, characters, and ultimately amazement about this neon oasis. In these pages, readers will meet gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Tony Spilotro, and Lefty Rosenthal, as well as Las Vegas's most popular entertainers: Elvis Presley, Sinatra's Rat Pack, Liberace, and Wayne Newton, not to mention the Folies Bergere showgirls. And Gragg's skillful interweaving of fictional and journalistic accounts of organized crime shows just how mutually reinforcing they have become over the years. Vegas will always make people's eyes light up as bright as the Strip, witness the new TV show Vegas or the recent film The Hangover. For everyone entranced by its glitter and glamour, Bright Light City is a must read boasting color photos and bursting with insider details: an eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up this desert city's extraordinary appeal.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous "Viva!" Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, Gragg identifies changing trends in the city's portraits. Until the 1940s, boosters promoted it as the "last frontier town," a place where prospectors and cowboys enjoyed liquor, women, and wide-open gambling. Then in the early 1950s commentators increasingly characterized Las Vegas as a sophisticated resort city in the desert, and ever since then journalists, filmmakers, and novelists have depicted a city largely built by organized crime and featuring non-stop entertainment, gambling, luxury, and, of course, beautiful-and available-women. In Gragg's narrative, these images form a kaleidoscope of lights, sounds, characters, and ultimately amazement about this neon oasis. In these pages, readers will meet gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Tony Spilotro, and Lefty Rosenthal, as well as Las Vegas's most popular entertainers: Elvis Presley, Sinatra's Rat Pack, Liberace, and Wayne Newton, not to mention the Folies Bergere showgirls. And Gragg's skillful interweaving of fictional and journalistic accounts of organized crime shows just how mutually reinforcing they have become over the years. Vegas will always make people's eyes light up as bright as the Strip, witness the new TV show Vegas or the recent film The Hangover. For everyone entranced by its glitter and glamour, Bright Light City is a must read boasting color photos and bursting with insider details: an eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up this desert city's extraordinary appeal.
Frommer's 96 San Francisco
Author: Darwin Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606361
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606361
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Italy
Author: Darwin Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606286
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606286
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Chicago
Author: Julie L. Belcover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028604770
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028604770
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Frommer's 96 Washington, D.C.
Author: Rena Bulkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606309
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028606309
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Frommer's 99 Las Vegas
Author: Mary Herczog
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780028623245
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Totally up-to-date on all the latest developments in America's favorite entertainment mecca can be found in this candid and outrageous guide to Las Vegas. Maps.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780028623245
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Totally up-to-date on all the latest developments in America's favorite entertainment mecca can be found in this candid and outrageous guide to Las Vegas. Maps.