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Las Vegas

(New Mexico)

One-armed bandits, beautiful desert, free drinks and unlimited glitz.

Las Vegas is all about glamour for its own sake, over-the-top hustle and flash as means and end. It's crowds of people in polyester pantsuits, big hair and gold chains, staring at neon signs and spinning cherries like deer hypnotised by headlights.

Not that Vegas doesn't have a serious side - billions are at stake on the tables and at the megaresorts. But you're given enough distractions to ignore it, until you lose. If you tire of the ding-ding-ding of the slot machines, the surrounding area has some of the Southwest's most beautiful scenery.

Books

	Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn (John L Smith)

	How can you resist reading this racy book written by a Las Vegas newspaper reporter once you know Wynn sued and bankrupted its original publisher?

	Casino (Nicholas Pileggi)

	Tracks the true-to-life story of organized crime in Las Vegas, with all the bribery, book-making, mistresses and shootings in the dead of night.

	Skin City: Behind the Scenes of the Las Vegas Sex Industry (Jack Sheehan)

	Interviews madams, strippers and XXX-film stars make for a scandalous tell-all.

	Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing About America's Most Fabulous City (Mike Tronnes, ed)

	Excerpts of essays and short stories spanning 40 years, with subjects running wild from atomic bomb-viewing picnics to the wedding chapel industry.

	Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture (Alan Hess)

	An architectural historian reveals the sacred and profane iconography of the Strip.

	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)

	Hunter S Thompson's tripped-out classic skates from ludicrous excess to sublime observations of America's most hallucinogenic city.

	Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party (Shawn Levy)

	Has a swingin' style that echoes the hip stylings of the era while dishing the dirt on the celebrities from Las Vegas' golden age.

	The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America (Sally Denton and Roger Morris)

	A lyrical and haunting investigation of the city's underbelly. Think mobsters have left town and Vegas has been Disneyfied? Think again.

	Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hal Rothman)

	A UNLV professor deconstructs the successes and social failures of Sin City.