The grit beneath the glitter : tales from the real Las Vegas / edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis.
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- 9780520935457
- 0520935454
- 1417525347
- 9781417525348
- 1597346438
- 9781597346436
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History -- 20th century
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Economic history
- Social conditions
- Nevada -- Las Vegas
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
- United States Local History
- 1900-1999
- 979.3/135034 21
- F849.L35
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Scripting Las Vegas : noir naïfs, junking up, and the new strip / Norman M. Klein -- Las Vegas of the mind : shooting movies in and about Nevada / Francisco Menendez -- Discordant infrastructure / Peter Goin -- Growth, services, and the political economy of gambling in Las Vegas, 1970-2000 / Eugene Moehring -- Lighting Las Vegas : electricity and the city of glitz / Jay Brigham -- Build it and the water will come / Jon Christensen -- The social costs of rapid urbanization in Southern Nevada / Robert E. Parker -- Rise to power : the recent history of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas / Courtney Alexander -- Class struggle in Oz / Mike Davis -- "Squeezing the juice out of Las Vegas" : reflections on growing up in Smalltown, USA / Brian Frehner -- I didn't know anybody lived there / Shannon McMackin -- How I became a native / William N. Thompson -- Inside the glitter : lives of casino workers / Kit Miller -- "She works hard for her money" : a reassessment of Las Vegas women workers, 1945-1985 / Joanne L. Goodwin -- The racial cauldron / Mike Davis -- Inside Jean / Constance Devereaux -- Looking into a dry lake : uncovering the women's view of Las Vegas / Amie Williams -- Colony, capital, and Casino : money in the real Las Vegas / Hal Rothman -- Who puts the "sin" in "Sin City" stories? Girls of grit and glitter in the city of women / Kathryn Hausbeck -- Nevada goes global : the foreign gaming rule and the spread of casinos / William N. Thompson -- Canto : Las Vegas / Richard Misrach.
The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known.
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