Winner takes all : how casino mogul Steve Wynn won--and lost--the high stakes gamble to own Las Vegas / Christina Binkley.
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TextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: New edition; Revised trade paperback editionDescription: xiii, 319 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316487924
- 0316487929
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and culture critic Christina Binkley comes an updated edition of her New York Times bestselling account of sex, drugs, and the rise of Las Vegas. With a new prologue on the rise and fall of Steve Wynn.
The Strip. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws millions of tourists from around the world every year. But Sin City hasn't always been booming: modern Vegas exists largely thanks to the extraordinary vision, and remarkable hubris, of three competing business moguls: Kirk Kerkorian, Dr. Gary Loveman, and Steve Wynn. And in the wake of #MeToo revelations, not all empires survive.
Having had personal access to all three tycoons, Binkley explains how their audacious efforts to reach the top-and to top one another-shaped the city as it stands. She takes us inside their grandest schemes, their riskiest deals, and the personalities that drove them to their greatest successes, and their most painful defeats. In this updated edition, she reveals the inside story of how Steve Wynn, the winner who took all, ultimately lost everything-twice.
Sharp, insightful, and revealing, Winner Takes All is the gripping story of how billions of dollars and the unparalleled drive for power turned dreams into larger-than-life reality.
"It's a great drama on the greatest stage. . . Wynn, Kerkorian, and Loveman represent three opposing business personalities, three styles of achieving success. On the Vegas Strip, they're pitted against one another like gladiators, and we've got front-row seats. Kapow!" - bestselling author Po Bronson
"Originally published in hardcover by Hyperion Books in March 2008 and in trade paperback in March 2009" -- Title page verso.
Includes index.
Wall Street Journal reporter Christina Binkley takes a close look at the trio of tycoons whose high-stakes gambles made Sin City soar. This is the story of how billions of dollars and the unparalleled drive for power made the personal visions of three moguls--Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman--evolve from dreams to larger-than-life reality.--From publisher description.
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