Making Monte Carlo
Subtitle: a history of speculation and spectacle
By: Mark Braude
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781476709697; 9781476709703
Subjects: Rich people; Social life and customs; Celebrities; Casinos; Gambling; Upper class; Biography; History
Description: "A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Monte Carlo stories; title: The cunning and the easily duped; title: The art of misdirection; title: The antechamber of death; title: Complete disorder reigns; title: We do not approve of gaming houses; title: A whole town remains to be built!; title: This little paradise; title: Karl Marx's cough; title: Prodigal sons and wayward daughters; title: Monaco at war; title: The merchant of death; title: Salvation by exile; title: The blue train; title: A monument to frivolity; title: Enter Elsa; title: The fast life; title: One-way street; title: Postscript: Faites vos jeux; title: Archival sources.