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With High Stakes, Gary Provost takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of Nevada's newly revitalized 21st-century vacation world. This inside look at both the gaming business and its new total entertainment centers, which now host twenty million visitors a year, reveals how Las Vegas became a clean, attractive, family-oriented resort. Today, casino gambling is just one attraction of many, most of them new: amazing theme parks, spectacular virtual-reality rides, futuristic glass domes, the world's tallest tower, a sky laser that can be seen all the way to Los Angeles.

High Stakes : Inside the New Las Vegas. This vivid exploration of a revitalized city riding a new wave of gambling fever-and of the men and companies betting billions on this futuristic new vacation world-offers a timely, wide-ranging, and well-informed look at how Las Vegas evolved from Sin City into the Orlando of the West.

A journalist's lively appraisal of how savvy businessmen have made Las Vegas a favored destination of recreation-minded .

Drawing mainly from his own reportage, Provost uses Circus Circus Enterprises as the focal point of his inquiry into what makes the desert boomtown tick.

High Stakes is a must read for every citizen who wants to understand the true cost .

High Stakes is a must read for every citizen who wants to understand the true cost of legalized gambling. Reverend Tom Grey, Field Coordinator and National Spokesperson for the Stop Predatory Gambling Foundation. Sam Skolnik tells this story with the added chilling authority of someone struggling to control his own poker habit. In those days they closed the track in the winter months, in New York so on weekends, I would take the bus or the train to Maryland to gamble. Far from the glitzy casinos full of high rollers, he shows a city that preys most of all on its own most vulnerable citizens.

Las Vegas was a mob town built on restlessness and hunger, on glitter . This is the new Las Vegas-no longer the stomping ground of the Rat Pack, but just as fascinating, just as energized, just as cutthroat.

Las Vegas was a mob town built on restlessness and hunger, on glitter, greed, and the firm belief that anyone can get lucky once. What, and who, is behind it all?

Gary Provost (November 14, 1944 – May, 1995) was an American writer and writing instructor, author of works including Make every word count: a guide to writing that works-for fiction and nonfiction (1980).

Gary Provost (November 14, 1944 – May, 1995) was an American writer and writing instructor, author of works including Make every word count: a guide to writing that works-for fiction and nonfiction (1980) and 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power (1985). Provost grew up in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Upon leaving school in 1962, Provost hitchhiked across the United States.

This vivid exploration of a revitalized city riding a new wave of gambling fever-and of the men and companies betting billions on this futuristic new vacation world-offers a timely, wide-ranging, and well-informed look at how Las Vegas evolved from Sin City into the Orlando of the West.

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