Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
by Nicholas Pileggi, Larry Shandling
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Author: Larry Shandling, Nicholas PileggiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-12
ISBN: 2724290976
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: Great piece on the mob and its Vegas heyday
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps a little more well known for "Wiseguys", the book that became the movie "Goodfellas", Nicholas Pileggi is as good as they get when it comes to writing about the Mafia, its people and the drama of living the life. It is unfortunate that he doesn't work very fast - more books would be welcome.
"Casino" is the true story of Vegas in its heyday prior to the mega resort/casinos we see today, like Excalibur, New York New York, The Luxor, etc. Before large corporations turned Las Vegas into a theme park with casinos, the Chicago mob pretty much controlled the then famous casinos of the day, like the Stardust, where the movie "Casino" disguises it with the fictional name of The Tangier. Skimming the profits was the mob's business. Perhaps the greatest handicapper of all time, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, ran three major casinos and ran them well. Chicago sent out the legendary Tony Spilotro to keep an eye on "Lefty" and protect him and the moolah. Spilotro, however, had ideas of his own and soon became mired in a horrendous mess, dragging Rosenthal and eventually all the mob controlled casinos to their demise with him. Rosenthal still lives, and even has a web site, but Spilotro at books' end learns the hard way that being insubordinate to the mob and skimming their skim has dire consequences.
Pileggi is a master at showing a picture of the lives of these people, the shady deals, the threats from every corner, from the state, other criminals and the Mob, and how difficult life is for those who choose the gambling scene as a way of life.
It's morbid but fascinating reading. A must for fans of organized crime books.
Summary of Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
The author of the best-seller, Wiseguy, traces the alliance of Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro, which ran the Mafia in Las Vegas and ended in adultery, murder, and revenge. 200,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Movie tie-in.The author of the best-selling Wiseguy gives us this true and brilliantly-told story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, revenge, and how it led to the Mafia's finally losing its stranglehold on the Las Vegas casinos.
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