The Real Las Vegas

Life Beyond the Strip

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2000
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513070-6 (ISBN)

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Although Las Vegas is the fastest growing metropolitan area in the United States, with a population of more than 1,200,000, little attention has been paid to that part of the city where people actually live--the city apart from the Strip and the flashy older gambling strip of Downtown. This book representing the work of young reporters from all over the United States who spent the better part of a year examining the "Real Las Vegas." Each one looked at a single aspect of life--the lives of teenagers, senior citizens, Mexican immigrants, the homeless, houses of worship, prostitutes, education, labor unions, pawn shops, housing, water supply (in a desert). Eventually they came to realize that no other city could duplicate the Las Vegas experience because no other city has depended for so long on the profits of gambling.

David Littlejohn is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written or edited eleven previous books, and is the West Coast arts correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Kensington, California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.1.2000
Zusatzinfo	32 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	243 x 164 mm
Gewicht	685 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-513070-7 / 0195130707
ISBN-13	978-0-19-513070-6 / 9780195130706
Zustand	Neuware