An edition of Making Monte Carlo (2016)

Making Monte Carlo

a history of speculation and spectacle

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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An edition of Making Monte Carlo (2016)

Making Monte Carlo

a history of speculation and spectacle

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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"A rollicking narrative history of Jazz Age Monte Carlo, chronicling the city's rise from WWI's ashes to become one of the world's most storied, infamous playgrounds of the rich, only to be crushed under it's own weight ten years later"--Provided by publisher.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
289

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Subjects

Rich people, Social life and customs, Celebrities, Casinos, Gambling, Upper class, Biography, History, Rich people, biography, Europe, biography, Europe, social life and customs, Monte-carlo (monaco), Europe, history, 20th century, New York Times reviewed, Manners and customs

Places

Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo (Monaco), Monaco

Times

20th century

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Cover of: Making Monte Carlo
Making Monte Carlo: a history of speculation and spectacle
2016, Simon & Schuster
in English - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle
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Table of Contents

Preface: Monte Carlo stories
The cunning and the easily duped
The art of misdirection
The antechamber of death
Complete disorder reigns
We do not approve of gaming houses
A whole town remains to be built!
This little paradise
Karl Marx's cough
Prodigal sons and wayward daughters
Monaco at war
The merchant of death
Salvation by exile
The blue train
A monument to frivolity
Enter Elsa
The fast life
One-way street
Postscript: Faites vos jeux
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
944.9/49
Library of Congress
DC946 .B73 2016, DC946.B73 2016

The Physical Object

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ix, 289 pages
Number of pages
289

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OL27207075M
Internet Archive
makingmontecarlo0000brau
ISBN 10
1476709696, 147670970X
ISBN 13
9781476709697, 9781476709703
LCCN
2015008580
OCLC/WorldCat
905667955

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