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Mahon, Gigi The Company That Bought the Boardwalk: A Reporter's Story of How Resorts Internation came to Atlantic City
New York Random House 1980 0394509781 / 9780394509785 First edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dj
Gigi Mahon, Barron's associate editor traces, in fascinating detail, the rise of Resorts International. How the little Mary Carter Paint Company in Florida was reincarnated as R.I., would be builder of glamorous resorts, owner of Paradise Island, Bahamas. The history intertwines with those of some of the more intiguing characters of our time: Howard Hughes and Huntington Hartford, Bebe Rebozo and Robert Vesco, Richard Nixon and local politicians from the Bahamas to the Boardwalk. The Justice Department official who quite and joined Resorts shortly after penning a government memo calling Paradise Islande "ripe for a Lansky (Meyer) skim." The story shifts from Nassau to Vegas to Atlantic City, once proud, then faded Queen of the Boardwalk. A small safe town, fiscally troubled, looking for a cure all. Finding corruption, payoffs, mob infiltration, whole neighborhoods disappearing, families displaced, with greed and the powerful people behind it finally destroying a beautiful old beach community and creating a living "Monopoly Game." Black boards, black cloth spine. DW not price clipped, pictorial, few small chips and mild rubbing of edges of extremities. Closed 1 inch tear to lower edge. Very clean, tightly bound. 8 vo, 262 p
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