We've listed a small selection of books that proved enjoyable or useful during the writing of this guide. Las Vegas changes so fast that although exposés of the city's early rise to fame abound, there's currently no up-to-date history that covers the boom of the last decade.
All publishers we've listed are in the US, unless otherwise specified
Architecture
Francis Anderton and John Chase
,
Las Vegas
(Ellipsis, UK). Beautifully written, highly intelligent pocket book that describes and illustrates every major building in the Las Vegas of 1996.
Alan Hess
,
Viva Las...
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Biography and history
Susan Berman
,
Lady Las Vegas
(TV Books). The book of the excellent TV series is a messy disappointment; Berman, who has herself fallen victim to a mysterious murder, shares some good family anecdotes from the days when her father ran the...
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Gambling
Thomas A Bass
,
The Newtonian Casino
(Penguin, UK); titled
The Eudaemonic Pie
in the US (Penguin US, o/p). Every gambler's dream: the true saga of how a group of computer graduates at the end of the 1970s constructed a...
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Literature
Andres Martinez
,
24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
(Villard). Journalists story of taking his book advance and putting it on the line at Vegas's gambling tables - thus creating the plot for this nonfiction tale.
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