"Rothman and Davis have given us not only the gritty, often ugly
reality behind the nation's brightest lights but also the touching
human drama that is the essence of our most emblematic and
enigmatic city. From the grind joints of Glitter Gulch to the
mammoth theme hotels of the twenty-first-century Strip, this
collection blends marvelously the best old-fashioned scholarship
and investigative reporting with the finest postmodern literary
sensibility and journalism. To understand the new West, and thus
the new century's America, begin here."--Sally Denton and Roger
Morris, authors of "The Money and the Power: The Making of Las
Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000
"Like rabbits mesmerized by a snake, cultural critics have been
locked onto the public spectacle of Las Vegas for so long they've
taken its facades for its entirety. But what is now surely the
greatest show on earth is in every sense of the word a production.
That production requires extraordinary natural resources and the
grueling labor offstage of producers-hotel maids, construction
workers-and as a byproduct has generated a vast city that says far
more about the scary state of things than all the sequins on all
the nipples on the strip. "Grit Beneath the Glitter gets that
picture whole, in an exhilarating, unsettling way."--Rebecca
Solnit, author of "Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the
Crisis of American Urbanism and "Savage Dreams: A Journey into the
Landscape Wars of the American West
"Most of us have ideas about Las Vegas. (In 1999 it surpassed
Mecca as the world's top tourist attraction.) But what is it like
to live there, to work there? How long can it keep reshaping itself
and what does its examplemean for the future? In this book,
artists, critics, and scholars, all with an intimate knowledge of
the place, combine forces to explain this latest version of the
American dream, compelling the attention of anyone interested in
what the urban future holds. Their insights will amaze you."--Carol
A. O'Connor, co-editor of "The Oxford History of the American
West
"There is no other book about Las Vegas, that 'playground of
paradox, ' as entertaining or fascinating as this. In puzzling over
whether Las Vegas is a place of 'resounding ordinariness' or 'the
latest in American dream capitals, ' the contributors to this
volume serve up a veritable banquet of delicious mind-food, one
delicious entree following another. Bravo!"--Dennis R. Judd,
co-author of "The Tourist City
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