Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Behind America's

By Susan Berman

Book Overview

There's absolutely, positively nowhere else like it - the fastest-growing city in America: Las Vegas. Sexy, rich, greedy, gorgeous, endlessly entertaining, unpredictable, garish, honky-tonk, surreal - she lies at the heart, soul and wallet of American culture. Susan Berman grew up alongside Las Vegas, maturing with the city. But devotion to the city - at a time when gangsters drilled each other with bullets and decapitated their enemies - cost Susan's father Davie Berman his life, and soon afterwards her mother took her own life in sorrow.Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposi, Lady Las Vegas is the story of a girl living in the shadow of a sexier, glitzier older sister, a creature with a thousand charms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575000202
• ISBN13: 9781575000206
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: TV Books
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Rare insights to the early Las Vegas and the Mob

Susan Berman (RIP) gives an interesting point of view as the child of a powerful mob frontman and the growth of the Mob and the Strip in Las Vegas. This was the basis of A & E's Real Las Vegas program. It's a fine book for those that love the concept of old Vegas and it's history.