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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Braude, Mark, author.     Subjects     Gambling -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.     Casinos -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.     Celebrities -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.     Upper class -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.     Rich people -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.     Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- History -- 20th century.     Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Braude, Mark, author.       by title:      Making Monte Carlo :...         MARC Display

Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude. by Braude, Mark, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. Subjects Gambling -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.   Casinos -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- History -- 20th century.   Celebrities -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.   Upper class -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.   Rich people -- Monaco -- Monte-Carlo -- Biography.   Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- History -- 20th century.   Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.   Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781476709697 (hardcover) : 1476709696 (hardcover) Description:  ix, 289 pages : maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 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 -- Archival sources. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 944.949 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.949 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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