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Title Making Monte Carlo : a history of speculation and spectacle / Mark Braude.
Author Braude, Mark.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  944.949 BRA    Check Shelves
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) 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 -- KarlMarx'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.
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.
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.
ISBN 1476709696 (hardcover) : $27.00
9781476709697 (hardcover)
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