Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City - Softcover

Johnson, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966674863 ISBN 13: 9780966674866

Verlag: PLEXUS PUB INC (NJ), 2010

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Book by Johnson Nelson

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"Read Boardwalk Empire. . . . Johnson spares no detail when painting a picture of the illegal activities that flourished in Atlantic City." --Egg Harbor News (New Jersey)

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Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores the sordid past of Atlantic City—forever a freewheeling town long-dedicated to the fast buck—from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era. A colorful cast of powerful characters, led by “Commodore” Kuehnle and “Nucky” Johnson, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the toxic power structure that grew out of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic City's shadowy past—through its rise, fall, and rebirth—is given new light in this revealing, and often appalling, study of legislative abuse and organized crime.

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• Verlag: PLEXUS PUB INC (NJ)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0966674863
• ISBN 13: 9780966674866
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284