The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

Award-winning reporter Sally Denton bestselling presidential biographer Roger Morris here give us an eye-opening portrait of Las Vegas?a city that has become emblematic of America?s future.

Exposing the city?s surprising links to Mormon bankers, the CIA, and several presidents, they reveal a [...]
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Award-winning reporter Sally Denton bestselling presidential biographer Roger Morris here give us an eye-opening portrait of Las Vegas?a city that has become emblematic of America?s future.

Exposing the city?s surprising links to Mormon bankers, the CIA, and several presidents, they reveal a dangerous relationship between politics, business, and crime. And through this gripping indictment of Las Vegas, they uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history.