Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas
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Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr. Gary Loveman are building a bigger and better Las Vegas and how their influence is spreading beyond the city's borders. The Washington Post - Jonathan Krim …[an] important and detailed account…Binkley vividly conveys the repulsiveness of the scene, but as with train wrecks, you just can't stop looking. Or reading.
Contents Prologue: FRIENDLY....................ixOne: BULLDOZED....................1Two: "RIFLE RIGHT"....................5Three: SAY "HAIR-UHS"....................18Four: 1989....................21Five: THE GREAT RACE....................31Six: BLIND....................41Seven: BRASS BALLS....................44Eight: THE OUTSIDERS....................62Nine: HIGH LIFE....................70Ten: CRUSHED VELVET WORLD....................84Eleven: HUNGRY ALLIGATOR....................101Twelve: TAA-DAAAAH!....................103Thirteen: SOUTHERN BLUES....................106Fourteen: IMPLOSION....................119Fifteen: MISS SPECTACULAR....................132Sixteen: CHOMP....................145Seventeen: WALKING ON AIR....................157Eighteen: DUPED....................164Nineteen: PROPELLER HEADS....................169Twenty: AVID....................183Twenty-one: VICE....................190Twenty-two: PICASSO'S PENIS....................199Twenty-three: SUNDAY NIGHT FEVER....................217Twenty-four: CAESARS....................230Twenty-five: RETURN OF THE KING....................240Twenty-six: BLIND MAN'S BLUFF....................256Twenty-seven: META-VEGAS....................266Twenty-eight: NO END....................283Author's Note....................285Bibliography....................287Index....................291
