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Author Braude, Mark, author.

Title Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  944.949 BRA    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  944.949 BRA    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description ix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-276) and index.
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.
Subject Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- History -- 20th century.
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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) -- Biography.
Casinos. (OCoLC)fst00848246
Celebrities. (OCoLC)fst00850072
Gambling. (OCoLC)fst00937372
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Rich people. (OCoLC)fst01097537
Upper class. (OCoLC)fst01162136
Monaco -- Monte-Carlo. (OCoLC)fst01216871
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781476709697 hardcover
1476709696 hardcover
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