Atlantic City Winners And Losers

Author : Howard Simon
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1682134008
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic City: Winners and Losers written by Howard Simon and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic City: Winners and Losers is centered in Atlantic City amid all that takes place in the hotel-casino life of that city. Tony Gordon, realtor and life long resident of the city, deals with the realities of life as it faces him and those he knows and loves. Life and death all play a role. Today is important---tomorrow, a question for so many people. Who are the winners? Who are the losers? Tony discovers it all, as do others caught up in the casino world of Atlantic City. The cards are dealt and now they must be played.

Author : Howard A. Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682133996
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic City written by Howard A. Simon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic City: Winners and Losers is centered in Atlantic City amid all that takes place in the hotel-casino life of that city. Tony Gordon, realtor and life long resident of the city, deals with the realities of life as it faces him and those he knows and loves. Life and death all play a role. Today is important---tomorrow, a question for so many people. Who are the winners? Who are the losers? Tony discovers it all, as do others caught up in the casino world of Atlantic City. The cards are dealt and now they must be played."

Author : George Sternlieb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674051263
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic City Gamble written by George Sternlieb and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1976, the state of New Jersey embarked upon a bold experiment when the voters approved a referendum to authorize casino gambling in Atlantic City. Expectations were high: the gaming industry could rejuvenate a dying city core, employment would swell, the tax base would broaden and welfare rolls diminish, tourism might spread through the state, and the cruel spectacle of a poverty-stricken community would be eliminated. The Atlantic City Gamble reports the results of this experiment and evaluates casinos as a tool for economic revitalization, a painless source of revenue. The casinos are enormously profitable--but for whom? The city has paid a huge toll in human and economic hardship. There are 30,000 new jobs, but little spillover into non-casino employment. Crime rates have skyrocketed. Housing has been priced beyond the reach of minority groups and the elderly. In 1982, the casinos paid more than $117 million in state taxes, but much of the projected bonanza to Atlantic City has been swallowed by the industry's need for expanded municipal services, such as police protection. Fears of the old connection between gambling and organized crime may be exaggerated, but few can deny that the gaming industry--with its immense daily cash flow--harbors a vast potential for corruption. The state promoted visions of a glorious rebirth, but it failed to provide a governing mechanism that could produce the promised rewards. Would better planning and research enable any government to cope with such instant large-scale business and the political clout it carries? Economic strangulation has motivated at least eight other states to think about letting in casinos. The decisions they make will have far-reaching social and economic consequences, and must be based on a set of facts as accurate and comprehensive as possible. In searching out the lessons of Atlantic City, the authors have provided a sobering glimpse into the intricacies of legalized gambling.

Author : Chris Mayda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742556905
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada written by Chris Mayda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive new text, Chris Mayda offers an exciting alternative to conventional North American geographies. Throughout her thorough discussion of the physical and human geography of the United States and Canada, the author weaves in the key themes of environment and sustainability. Combining incisive analysis, rich description, human stories, and vibrant photographs, this text offers a complete and vivid portrait of the region from human, physical, and cultural perspectives. Designed expressly for ease of teaching and learning, the book features color photographs and maps throughout.

Author : Bryant Simon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883297
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boardwalk of Dreams written by Bryant Simon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards. In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs. Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.

Author : Leonard I. Ruchelman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742539099
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities in the Third Wave written by Leonard I. Ruchelman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in the Third Wave surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. In the belief that technology is the force that has created and recast cities throughout history, this book addresses the important question of how the modern-day technology affects cities today and how it will shape cities in the future.

Author : James R Karmel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731462X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gambling on the American Dream written by James R Karmel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of economic and social impacts.

Author : Robert S. Turner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498200974
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Father Who Aren't in Heaven written by Robert S. Turner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord's Prayer holds an honored place in the worship and devotional practices of countless Christians around the world. People of every ethnic background, denominational affiliation, and theological leaning pray to "Our Father who art in heaven." But what if there's more to it than we think? Our Father Who Aren't in Heaven takes a decidedly this-worldly approach to the prayer, and seeks to understand what Jesus meant to teach his original disciples--and us--through this radical manifesto of the kingdom of God. In these pages, Robert S. Turner presents a political reading of the prayer and explores how we can encounter through it a God who has left the divine hammock empty and cast God's lot with humanity and the rest of creation. A renewed understanding of the prayer may have the capacity to transform the world. These subversive reflections on the Lord's Prayer may have the capacity to transform the reader as well.

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761445418
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Gambling written by Richard Worth and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores both sides of the ongoing, temper-raising controversies that surround gambling.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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