An edition of Making Monte Carlo
(2016)
Making Monte Carlo
a history of speculation and spectacle
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
by Mark Braude
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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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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 customsPlaces
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Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle
2016, Simon & Schuster
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Making Monte Carlo: a history of speculation and spectacle
2016, Simon & Schuster
in English
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
1476709696 9781476709697
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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