Christina Binkley

Winner Takes All

Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas

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Produktbeschreibung

Sharp, insightful, and revealing, this is the gripping story of the billions of dollars and unparalleled drive for power of three moguls--Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman--and their strategic and creative genius in the race to own Las Vegas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hyperion
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781401309763
• ISBN-10: 1401309763
• Artikelnr.: 25504293

Autorenporträt

Christina Binkley is an award-winning journalist who writes and chats about the business of culture. At the Wall Street Journal for twenty-three years, she covered fashion, gambling, and other topics that familiarized her with larger-than-life personalities. Binkley contributes to WSJ Magazine, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and DesignLA. She appears periodically on venues such as CNN and National Public Radio. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Binkley was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11. She was awarded the Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Binkley lives in the hills of Los Angeles with her husband and two teens, with cats, a dog, a passel of chickens, and a dead-on view of the Hollywood sign.