MARC Record from marc_columbia

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050 00 $aF849.L35$bC665 2004
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100 1 $aCooper, Marc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85184404
245 14 $aThe last honest place in America :$bparadise and perdition in the new Las Vegas /$cMarc Cooper.
260 $aNew York :$bNation Books :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a248 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Last Honest Place in America is Marc Cooper's attempt to explore the pull Las Vegas exercises over him, and perhaps, the other tens of millions who increasingly stream into its casinos, clubs, and resorts." "Cooper's journey begins in October 2001 with the dynamiting of the Desert Inn, the moment when old Vegas "cool" died and the new corporate model claimed definitive victory. And then from late 2002 into the summer of 2003, he spent longer and more frequent stretches of time in Vegas, sometimes weeks at a time, moving from one hotel to another, from the glitzy Strip to the frayed downtown, indulging his lifelong love of blackjack, hanging out with mormons, mobsters, MBAs, born-again virgins, strippers, lap dancer union organizers, gambling addicts, priests, and Vegas's colorful and controversial mayor." "As Cooper got deeper into the research, it became ever more difficult for him to separate the work from the rest of his life. Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated bubble environment; its timelessness and placelessness often consumed him, rendering it difficult to distinguish if his project was at its beginning or end. Was he, in fact, working or just playing blackjack, researching or just staying up all night because he was afraid to sleep?"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGambling$xSocial aspects$zNevada$zLas Vegas.
651 0 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aLas Vegas (Nev.)$xSocial conditions.
852 00 $boff,glx$hF849.L35$iC665 2004