Hal RothmanNeon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Hal Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the editor of the journal Environmental History. The author of Devil's Bargains:Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, Rothman is a frequent commentator on Las Vegas. He has been featured on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and in The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal and in the four-hour A&E Television Network documentary, LasVegas.
Introduction Part I: Making Money 1. Inventing Modern Las Vegas 2. It's
Hard to Be Elvis in Las Vegas: Entertainment in the Malleable Metropolis 3.
The Last Detroit: The New Service Economy 4. Freedom and Limits in a City
of Pleasure Part II: Filling Las Vegas 5. The New Emigrant Trail 6. The
Face of the Future 7. Aztlan in Neon: Latinos in the New City Part III:
Building a New City 8. The Tortoise and the Air: Life in a Libertarian
Desert 9. Rolling to a Stop: The Weight of Traffic 10. The Instant
Metropolis: Building a City without Basements or Closets 11. Community from
Nothingness: Neighborhoods of Affinity Epilogue
