The Last Honest Place in America
Subtitle: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: May 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781560254904
Subjects: Nevada - Local History; United States - State & Local - West; Sociology - General; Las Vegas (Nev.); Gambling (Social Aspects); Travel - General; History; Social life and customs; Travel; Social aspects; Nevada; Essays & Travelogues; United States - Pacific - Las Vegas; Travel / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, UT, WY); Gambling; United States - State & Local - General; Description and travel; Las Vegas
First sentence: IT'S 1:45 A.M. ON the warm morning of October 23, 2001, barely six weeks after the World Trade Center disaster, and there's little public appetite to applaud the violent downing of another tall building.