Vanderwood / Joseph / Rosenberg Satan's Playground

Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9166-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanderwood, Paul J

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. The Mob Strikes the Border Barons 1

2. Mobs 12

3. Playground of the Hemisphere 37

4. Fortuitous Breaks 51

5. Border Babylon 71

6. King of Border Vice 80

7. "They're Off!" 90

8. Prohibition's Bounty 103

9. The New Wave 119

10. Agua Caliente in Gestation 134

11. Building Camelot 140

12. Capt. Jerry's Day 172

13. "Silent" Marty's Oration 179

14. Veracity 190

15. Fixes 199

16. Sentencing and Censoring 212

17. Hollywood's Playground 222

18. "Place Your Bets!" 238

19. Get the Barons 272

20. Fools and Thieves 291

21. A Dead Cock in the Pit 304

22. What Ever Happened To? 320

23. Ghosts 336

Notes 341

Bibliography 373

Index 385

Über Autor(innen)

Paul J. Vanderwood (1929-2011) was Professor Emeritus of Mexican History at San Diego State University. He was the author of several books including Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint, also published by Duke University Press; The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development; and Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico’s Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910–1917.