30 Illegal Years To The Strip: The Untold Stories Of The Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip, by Bill Friedman
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30 Illegal Years To The Strip is the inside story of Prohibition’s most powerful leaders, who later ran elegant, illegal casinos across America, before moving on to build the glamorous Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. The seven leaders of the three dominating Prohibition gangs imported the world’s finest liquors on a massive scale. Although in an illegal and dangerous business, these seven espoused traditional business values and rejected the key tools of organized crime - monopoly, violence, and vendetta. This made them the most unlikely gangsters to rise to underworld leadership. But they earned every criminal’s respect, and fate made them the most powerful gangland leaders in American history. In the mid 1900s, these seven leaders stood up to, and restrained, America’s worst villains. The seven prevented many gangland wars and killings. Unbelievably, the most murderous and most psychopathic gang leaders not only admired them but supported them in gangland conflicts. These were the first gangs to work closely together in mutual interest. Joining these three dominating liquor-importers was the violent Chicago Capone gang, as they partnered in both illegal and legal businesses during and after Prohibition. They were also close allies in the complexities, treachery, and violence of underworld politics. Exposed for the first time are the roles actually played by gang leaders Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, John Torrio, Frank Nitti, and Moe Dalitz. Some of these seven leaders became powerful overworld political kingmakers. Allied with them in New York City politics was Arnold Rothstein, the ultimate gambler. His murder is one of several major gangland killings finally solved here. The biggest-drawing entertainer in these gang leaders’ illegal-casino and Strip-resort showrooms was comedian Joe E. Lewis. He single-handedly saved the Copacabana from bankruptcy and turned it into America’s most famous and glamorous nightclub. The careers and relationships of the gang leaders, who together would go on to build the Las Vegas Strip, are presented for the first time in this thoroughly documented, in-depth, authentic history of how organized crime developed. It contains 546 source notes, and many addendums that expose the serious fallacies and outright fictions of previous books about early organized crime. This book is based on 48 years of research that began, when the author was drafted during the Vietnam War. A conscientious objector, he was ordered to spend his alternative service in Las Vegas hanging out with gangsters to study the history and operation of organized crime. (More info about this government-ordered study in About The Research at www.BillFriedmanAuthor.com)
30 Illegal Years To The Strip: The Untold Stories Of The Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip, by Bill Friedman- Amazon Sales Rank: #192864 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x 1.19" w x 8.50" l, 2.66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 524 pages
About the Author Bill Friedman wrote the award-winning, Depression era, true-crime All Against The Law. He wrote the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition, published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is also author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business, Casino Management. He taught the pioneer course in casino management for UNLV’s College of Hotel Administration during the decade of the 1970s. Friedman was president of the Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for thirteen years. He transformed them from perennial losers into super successes, consistently in the top of Nevada’s highest profit-per-square-foot performers. Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group, which specializes in solving casino marketing, design, and operations problems. He has consulted for forty years to casinos in the U.S. and in England, Monaco, Russia, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and several Caribbean Islands. www.BillFriedmanAuthor.com
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A book for people that will accept an alternative point of view By W. D. Barnum This is a very difficult book to review - the author uses the "Joe Friday" method of writing - "just the facts, Mam, just the facts" - short sweet declarative sentences. Which is generally not a style I enjoy - this style of writing makes reading more of a task than it needs to be. However - the subject is fascinating, and the author has really done his research, and by that I mean new interviews, and digging in original files, not just the rehashing of old "wives tales" about the mob. This is a true history book - not some glamorized fictional story. It has plenty of footnotes, addendums, and an index for you, if you are into that type of thing.The author brings to this historical project, for that is what it is, a project where this is the first book, but certainly not the last, his own personal opinions, which he supports with the descriptions of many various detailed events. An example of his "bias" - Here is a quote about Governor Thomas Dewey "Dewey's whole career, as a Special Prosecutor, DA, Mayor, and Governor, involved prosecutorial misconduct." Page 318.The author views the framing of individuals by the Justice System, as the ultimate crime. However, he views the filling of the illegal desires of the population with such things as gambling and liquor (during Prohibition) as acceptable.His most scathing criticisms are for the public officials that sold their positions for either monetary or political gain.This book gives a good history from the late 1800's, when many of the men profiled were born, up through the end of WWII.This is a book for people that will accept an alternative point of view, and not ones that are married to the images they "learned" by watching "The Untouchables" or "The FBI" on television in the early 1960's.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. EXCELLENT BOOK ! By Julia Reynolds I enjoyed this book because I know it's based on fact. My father and his friends are retired Las Vegas casino executives and they confirmed to me that a number of incidents in it were written just as they were told to them by old casino operators from New York , Chicago , and Miami who had moved to Las Vegas after the Kefauver Senate hearings in the 1950's. I've lived my whole life in Las Vegas , and I love reading about the casinos and the characters who built them. Most books about those in Las Vegas and the illegal ones in other states disappoint me because my father and his friends point out so much in them that never happened. The truth makes Friedman's book so refreshing and fascinating. His extensive documentation that includes interviews with some of the key figures indicates that the other incidents are true as well. Before the hoods in this book built their strip casinos, they lived exciting stories for survival in a dangerous, illegal world. Friedman's inside information shows that many weren't all bad. Because these are true-crime stories, the action keeps going places you don't expect, and these men's ingenuity to get away with things is amazing. Because each fast moving incident took unusual turns, it kept me sitting at the edge of my chair. I can't wait for the next book in his historical odessy! I also found his blogs on his website BillFriedmanAuthor.com to have interesting reviews and discussions about related subjects with other readers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Well researched and fascinating! By NoirGirl This book is exhaustively researched and fascinating reading. Future authors who cite this work will owe a debt of gratitude to Bill Friedman for putting a wealth of documented information all in one place. "30 Illegal Years to the Strip" is more of an information bank than advertised "mafia encyclopedias", the exception being that it is well written, exciting and captures the reader's interest. It is not just a dry listing of the facts but is most readable. In addition to research on the previously published, the author does not rely strictly on secondary resources having done interviews of his own with mob legends such as "Jimmy Blue Eyes" and others. The author gives well rounded portrayals of leading mob figures showing them as real human beings---neither all good nor all bad. One myth that has been perpetuated over the decades is that Charles "Lucky" Luciano was involved with narcotics and prostitution for which he was arrested in 1936. Friedman sets the record straight; Luciano was framed by Thomas Dewey. While most definitely a foremost leader in organized crime, Luciano, at this point, was not involved with drugs and flesh peddling. The fact that Friedman corrects this misconception leads me to believe the veracity of the other information presented in this book. Love "30 Illegal Years to the Strip: The Untold Story" and I'm looking forward to reading other works by this author.
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