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Running Scared
The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn
By John L. Smith
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352 Pages, Hardcover
Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
Barricade Books
Related listings: Nevada: Travel, Geography and Politics
Date: 1995
ISBN: 1-56980-039-1
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 6/20/97
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-Anytime you have an "unauthorized biography", you can expect some
juicy dirt to be tossed in the mix. Even better if the subject sues
the author and publisher following its publication. And this book has it. Lots of
very interesting tidbits of the most powerful man in Las Vegas
and perhaps the entire State of Nevada. This is the guy with the Mirage,
pirates and dolphins. A little background reading for those planning
on visiting Las Vegas anytime soon.
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From the Book Cover
Steve Wynn has already sued the author of this book and its publisher twice for material
that merely describes its contents!
To his admiring public, Wynn is that smiling fellow who bantered with Frank Sinatra on
television commercials for his Atlantic City casino and whose face now promotes his
Las Vegas casinos, the Mirage and Treasure Island, as well as his soon-to-be constructed
gambling palace in Atlantic City,
This is the investigative biography that he didn't want published.
Wynn is the widely acclaimed genius who revolutionized the casino concept. He has
caused America's gaming industry to explode in growth.
The carefully crafted public image of the most dynamic force in today's legalized
casino business offers a handsome, university-educated operator in a modern mob-free
casino industry. The trouble is that the image is fiction. Running Scared
reveals a much different Steve Wynn -- one whose reality Wynn has fought to keep in
the closet of his past.
The fact is that Wynn has often been accused of shadow-waltzing precariously
close to the wise-guy world throughout his meteoric career.
Running Scared tells of Wynn's rapid rise to wealth and power. It
began with Wynn's father who was one of the rulers of New York's
scandal-ridden world of illegal Bingo. Michael Wynn dealt with a front man for the
Genovese crime family. Another of his associates was a point man for Chicago mob
lieutenant Johnny Rosselli.
Steve Wynn's 3-percent investment in the Las Vegas Frontier exploded in his face
when investigators discovered that the true owners of the hotel were members of the
Detroit mob. His early success depended heavily on the friendship and support of
Nevada banker E. Parry Thomas. Thomas, a conduit for the mobbed-up Teamsters Union
Central States pension fund, was the money man whose loans built the old Las Vegas.
Parry wasn't Steve Wynn's only ally. His casino expansion career was jump-started
by convicted felon Michael Milken, the noterious junk bond wheeler-dealer. Milken has
been called "the Meyer Lansky of the modern casino era" and Steve Wynn was his best
customer.
Running Scared explains Steve Wynn's tremendous power in Nevada where he is
easily the most powerful and most feared man in the State. It shatters the Prince
Charming myth. It details why a confidential Scotland Yard report deprived him of a
license to open a casino in London.
And this is only the beginning. Running Scared offers an intimate look behind the
green felt tables, the pretty ladies, the loud music and the feverish whirl of slot machines
never before available to the reading public.
This book took courage to write and courage to publish for Wynn is rich, powerful,
litigious and, as these pages show, often intensely vindictive.
Table of Contents
Publisher's Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Pirates in the Desert
PART I
- Chapter 1: Young Stephen
- Chapter 2: Frontier Days
- Chapter 3: A Bottle of Wine, An Acre of Luck, A Friend For Life
- Chapter 4: Grabbing the Golden Nugget
- Chapter 5: Little Louie and the Golden Boy
PART II
- Chapter 6: Into Atlantic City
- Chapter 7: Uncle Charlie
- Chapter 8: Boardwalk Blues
- Chapter 9: The Trouble with Mel Harris
- Chapter 10: A Battle with the British
PART III
- Chapter 11: The Ultimate Insider
- Chapter 12: Wynn-MoranWar
- Chapter 13: ImageIs Everything
- Chapter 14: A Shadow Over Shadow Creek
- Chapter 15: The Politics of Dolphins
- Chapter 16: A Great Friend, An Enemy Who Never Forgets
- Chapter 17: Expanding the Empire
- Chapter 18: The Vegas King
Epilogue: Running Strong Into the Future
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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About the Author
John L. Smith is an award-winning columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal
. He's a fourth-generation Nevadan. He and his wife make their home in the
quiet hills that surround noisy Las Vegas.
-- From the Publisher
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