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Prentice-Hall, Published 1961. Hardcover, 225 pp.; 22 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Good condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Light brown textured boards show bumping to edges and corners, with light to moderate overall edge wear and surface wear. Binding tight. Pages lightly toned but otherwise unmarked. The dust jacket is heavily worn, with several large chips and tears and creasing along the edges, and moderate overall scuffing, soiling, and toning. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. An intimate, close-up view of Las Vegas by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ed Reid, taking readers into the clockless, windowless casinos and describing the colorful legends of the town. Reid's investigative reporting on organized crime earned the Brooklyn Eagle a 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and his later Las Vegas investigations contributed directly to the formation of the Kefauver Committee. This book precedes Reid's more explosive collaboration with Ovid Demaris, "The Green Felt Jungle" (1963). Cited in Stanley Paher's standard Nevada bibliography as Paher 1634. [From jacket flaps] Welcome to Las Vegas! This is the story of a city that never sleeps . . . a lush oasis on the Nevada desert . . . a young, vigorous, colorful town throbbing with excitement night and day. Here is your silver-dollar excursion to the plush gaming casinos, showrooms, beautifully-appointed luxury hotels and fine restaurants of the "Entertainment Capital of the World." The nightlife of Las Vegas annually draws millions of tourists who also enjoy the lavish boating, swimming and golf facilities of the hotels. Others flock to Vegas to see championship trapshooting, hunting, golf, basketball and water sport events that are held throughout the year. Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Ed Reid gives an intimate, close-up view of this vacationland extravaganza, past and present. He takes you into the new clockless, windowless casinos, where you can try your luck at craps, baccarat, roulette and 21. He shows you how to play . . . how to bet . . . and describes a couple of "systems" now going around that you might want to try out to build up your stake. You'll find out where to get the best steaks in town, the better French and Florentine dishes, Mexican food, exotic Chinese fare and Western-style snacks and dinners. You'll enjoy this account of the fabulous, glittering stage shows on the Strip, peopled with some of the most beautiful showgirls and dancers in the world. The growth and history of Vegas is as extraordinary as its present. Ed Reid describes how it was, over a hundred years ago, when tumbleweeds were its only form of life and the gold and silver mines of Southern Nevada were among history's greatest bonanzas. The men and legends spawned in this town are many and varied. In LAS VEGAS, City Without Clocks, you'll meet such colorful people as Nick the Greek, Harry the Horse, Doby Doc Caudill and Riley Grannan. Here is a town that is always on the go . . . where the rattle of the dice and the click of the roulette wheel never ends . . . and the early morning hours are filled with excitement.