Las Vegas: Who Built America’s Playground?

Larry Gragg digs beneath the glitzy surface of America’s ‘sin city’ to find out how this extravagant home of gambling and glamour came into being.

Golden Nugget and Pioneer Club along Fremont Street (1952).

In the 1974 blockbuster The Godfather Part II a character named Hyman Roth, modelled after crime boss Meyer Lansky, pays homage to a departed friend,

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