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Las Vegas America begins with the dynamiting of the Desert Inn in October 2001, the moment when old Vegas "cool" died and the new corporate model claimed definitive victory. From this moment, Cooper takes us on a journey from the top of the Luxor Hotel's glass pyramid, down "the Strip," past the golden glow of the Mirage into the town's black ghetto. Along the way, the best-selling author introduces us to a cast of characters including casino king Steve Wynn and Tim Thuller, leader of the Vagabound Motorcycle Club. He explores life among Vegas's 75,000 union families and considers how outlaws and iconoclasts are adapting to life in the new corporate city. Finally Cooper strays beyond the Strip into a desolate landscape characterized by pawnshops, destitution, crime, and impending environmental crisis. "For me," writes Cooper, "Las Vegas is the last, most honest place in America. Vegas is often described as a city of dreams and fantasy, of tinselish make-believe. But this is getting backwards. Vegas is the American market ethic stripped completely bare, a mini-world totally free of the pretenses and protocols of modern consumer capitalism. Watching it operate with barely any mediation generates nothing short of an intellectual frisson."
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Alana Winner
reviewed The last honest place in America on January 25, 2011 The last honest place in America
I'm on my way to visit Las Vegas for the 4th time in 7 years. If I had my way I'd visit twice a year, heck, I'd love to live there. Marc Cooper covers a broad range of topics about Vegas from transgender strippers, blackjack tips, mob history, and all the juicy local government gossip. Cooper is really blatant about his love for "Old Vegas" which was at first annoying (hey, I like the big exploding volcano) but after diving a little deeper into Vegas' history, I couldn't help but fall in love with the way Vegas used to be even if I'm not old enough to have ever experienced it. There is alot of focus on the post-9/11 economic dip but it manages to remain especially relevant during these recession times. I look forward to returning to Vegas with a lot of new knowledge and a different perspective than those other "fanny-packed Midwesterners"
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