Welcome to the pleasuredome - David Spanier

In Las Vegas the party is never over, the slots, dice, and wheels never stop rolling, the entertainers are always on stage, and the glitter never fades.;David Spanier knows the city inside and out, and he loves every gilded, dollar-hungry, neon-lit inch of it. Spanier traces the progress of Las Vegas from its pioneer days as a railroad town, through its heyday in the fifties as the playground of the rich and famous, to its present incarnation as theme park extraordinaire.;With humour and keen observation, David Spanier takes us behind the glittering facade of Las Vegas to learn how a modern casino really works, to introduce the flamboyant Steve Wynn, whose casino fantasy, The Mirage, rose up to become, virtually overnight, one of the most dynamic gambling operations in the world. He braves the brothels to talk with the "entertainers" and examines Vegas's infatuation with high rollers -- gamblers who have a credit line of one million dollars or more. Spanier's account of Las Vegas, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, vibrates with the energy and excitement of the city itself.;"A graduate of Cambridge University, David Spanier began his career as a journalist with the "London Times "and was later made a foreign correspondent. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed "Easy Money, Total Poker, Total Chess" and "Europe, my Europe.