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Steve Wynn is the former owner of the Bellagio – Las Vegas’s latest monument to conspicuous consumption whose hotel and casino contain over $300 million in fine art and $1.5 billion in Wall Street money. He’s a mogul whose empire at one point included the Mirage, the Golden Nugget, and Treasure Island. But how did he gain and wield his tremendous power in Nevada? And why did a confidential Scotland Yard report prevent him from opening a casino in London? When this biography, written by a local reporter, was first released in 1995, Steve Wynn brought suit against its original publisher and forced him into bankruptcy. Now available in paperback, the inside story of the biggest phenomenon to roil Las Vegas since H… More >>
Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn
Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn
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Tags: Casino, King, Life, Running, Scared, Steve, Times, Treacherous, Vegas, WynnPosted 06 Jul 2010 in General
I have read the book several times and I have still yet to see any evidence of the treachery that took place or said there of to have taken place. The book introduces the world to a place of destination, that being of Las Vegas, for many americans who spend hard earned dollars there every year. I agree with other columns written. The man is demanding and quite curt with honest people whom he has developed far stretching relationships with and I feel that be trying to expose his wit through the loopholes that the babyboomer generation has setforth through government that logic is in line with my generation forthcoming, however, I think that a sense of jealousy and zealousness in pride on the behalf of the entities herein are just as Daffy Duck and his ity bitty committee II would say. I want a trade for this despicable draft. However, there is hope and definitely a market for your kind of material and that would be more with the likes of the generation behind my own. This definitely is the real first family…… The baby boomer generation is just simply and plainly ashamed to admit it. Rating: 2 / 5
As a friend of the legendary publishing icon, Barney Rosset, I was fascinated to see how a suggestions from Scotland Yard — that Wynn certainly had mob friends — could severely damage Rosset. Wynn has hurt him by tying up his inventory — by tying up the inventory of Rosset’s distributor, the cankanerous Lyle Stuart. Is a Las Vegas casino owner like Wynn mob-connected? Is the Pope Catholic? How can such obvious truth stated in this really, really good book wind up with someone as good and great as BARVEY ROSSET in bankruptcy? Did Rosset survive the trials of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, “Howl” “Naked Lunch” and the great books of Samuel Beckett to be damaged by a mobbed-up court? Rating: 5 / 5
(…) Steve Wynn is truly a fascinating guy and his story needs to be fully told to appreciate his diverse talents, “associations,” and background. Running Scared tells the brutal truth about a facinating Vegas character. Thank goodness the mob was run out of Vegas years ago! Rating: 5 / 5
I have read the book several times and I have still yet to see any evidence of the treachery that took place or said there of to have taken place. The book introduces the world to a place of destination, that being of Las Vegas, for many americans who spend hard earned dollars there every year. I agree with other columns written. The man is demanding and quite curt with honest people whom he has developed far stretching relationships with and I feel that be trying to expose his wit through the loopholes that the babyboomer generation has setforth through government that logic is in line with my generation forthcoming, however, I think that a sense of jealousy and zealousness in pride on the behalf of the entities herein are just as Daffy Duck and his ity bitty committee II would say. I want a trade for this despicable draft. However, there is hope and definitely a market for your kind of material and that would be more with the likes of the generation behind my own. This definitely is the real first family…… The baby boomer generation is just simply and plainly ashamed to admit it. Rating: 2 / 5
Collection of conjecture that was at times painful to read. The recent Mirage annual report gives a better perspective of Wynn’s gaming empire and how it was built. Rating: 1 / 5