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Atlantic City (Hardcover)
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Atlantic City (Hardcover)
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Atlantic City was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so
big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was
'the World's Playground'. Its hotels were the largest and finest,
its nightclubs legendary, its boardwalk an endless promenade. And
then, as it began to fade, the casinos came. And instead of
reviving the city they killed it. Chief among the villains in this
piece is Donald J Trump, who built his casinos on dunes of debt and
bled them into bankruptcy. On the presidential campaign trail Trump
boasted of his 'success' in Atlantic City, how he had outwitted
Wall Street and leveraged his own name for riches. He would do for
America what he had done for Atlantic City, he said. And so it came
to be. Brian Rose has documented what remains of the city in the
aftermath of the casino explosion. The images are haunting.
Atlantic City may never recover.
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