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Casino
Casino
Author: Nicholas Pileggi
Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas Mob. A real-life story of love and betrayal set in America's favorite playground, Casino is a mafia tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, as well as the inside account of just how the mob lost control of the neon money-making machine it created.
ISBN-13: 9780671581725
ISBN-10: 0671581724
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Paperback
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Note this book is not fiction, nor a novelization of the film Casino. Like Wiseguy, it's the real account that Scorsese fashioned into a film (with Pileggi's help again).

Casino tells the story of the Chicago mob's major role in running Las Vegas, how it happened, and how it more or less ended (or appeared to) in the 1980s. Corporations (institutionalized gangsters) took over, and now we're to assume that gambling is a respectable, fine industry. It's hard to cheer for the state 'gaming' officials as they pursue mobsters who are skimming a casino, of all places. A character in the film says it best when he exclaims, 'You mean the money we're robbing is bein' robbed?!'

A good read before or after the excellent film. There's quite a bit of detail as far shady business dealings, politics, and mob bosses go, but less of the nitty gritty mobster detail from Wiseguy.
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This book was very informative of the real players that made up the movie Casino. I really enjoyed this book because I learned alot.
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This was horribly written, repetitive, and choppy. Too much explanation, not enough action...hated it.
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The basis for the Martin Scorsese movie of the same name, Pileggi's true-crime account charts the rise and fall of a pair of Vegas hoods.