Becoming America's Playground: Las Vegas in the 1950s

by Larry Dale Gragg

Book Overview

In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America's Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806163518
• ISBN13: 9780806163512
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"