The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City - Brossura

Van Meter, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 1400052971 ISBN 13: 9781400052974

Casa editrice: Three Rivers Pr, 2004

Riassunto

A portrait of the 500 Club's owner notes his significant contributions to the history of Atlantic City; his relationships with such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin; his links to political figures and the mob; and the cost of legalized gambling to his professional and personal lives. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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“With The Last Good Time, Jonathan Van Meter has done for Atlantic City what John Berendt did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Far from just a juicy history of Atlantic City—although it is that as well—Van Meter has crafted a masterful and eminently readable tale of a fascinating time and place. Through his portrait of Paul ‘Skinny’ D’Amato and the 500 Club, Van Meter sheds new light on American icons we thought we already knew all about—Sinatra, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—and captures that incredible period where entertainers, politicians, sports heroes, and mobsters could all gather at the same club and have a drink together.”—Gay Talese

“Jonathan Van Meter has written an engrossing history of a how a time and a place and a man and a family intersected to make a New Jersey sand spit the dead center of what was in its period America’s most irresistible illicit glamour—a world where everyone knew Frank and Dean and The Yankee Clipper and all the pretty women wanted to be Conover models.”—Joan Didion

“The Last Good Time is a great read! Was Skinny D’Amato in the mob or on its periphery? Good question, but it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that Jonathan Van Meter has brought to life a man who was at the center of a period that saw mobsters, politicians, entertainers, businessmen, casino operators and sports stars all converge at Skinny D’Amato’s 500 Club. For guys and dolls of every stripe it was probably the last good time, and Van Meter captures it perfectly.”—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino
From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

Jonathan Van Meter has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire, New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Three Rivers Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400052971
• ISBN 13: 9781400052974
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296