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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
de Doug Swanson
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Used - Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670026034
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026036
- Librería
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Youngtown, Arizona, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Viking, August 2014. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good. Dust jacket has shelf wear.
Sinopsis
The first full biography of Benny Binion—a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino-owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion’s crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on a combination of vision, determination, and brutal expediency. His formula was simple: run a good business, cultivate the big boys, kill your enemies, and own the cops. Through a mix of cold-bloodedness, native intelligence, folksiness, and philanthropy, Binion became one of the most revered figures in the history of gambling, and his showmanship, shrewdness, and violence would come to constitute the Vegas aura. Veteran journalist Doug J. Swanson uses once-secret government documents and dogged reporting to show how Binion destroyed his rivals and out-smarted his adversaries—including J. Edgar Hoover. As fast-paced as any thriller, Blood Aces tells a story that is unmatched in the annals of American criminal justice, a vital yet untold piece of this country’s history.
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- Título
- Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
- Autor
- Doug Swanson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670026034
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026036
- Editorial
- Viking
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- August 2014
- Páginas
- 368
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