Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson - the second of the three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society.In Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Johnson, Louis 'the Commodore' Kuehnle, Frank 'Hap' Farley, and Atlantic City itself spring to life in all their garish splendour. Author Nelson Johnson traces 'AC' from its birth as a quiet seaside health resort, through the corruption, notorious backroom politics and power struggles, to the city's rebirth as an international entertainment and gambling mecca where anything goes.Boardwalk Empire is the true story that inspired the epic HBO series starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Kelly Macdonald.'As good, if not better, than the television series' Independent
Vorwort
The original book that inspired Boardwalk Empire, the award-winning, prohibition-era HBO series from Martin Scorsese and the producers of The Sopranos
Autorentext
Vorwort
The original book that inspired Boardwalk Empire, the award-winning, prohibition-era HBO series from Martin Scorsese and the producers of The Sopranos
Autorentext
Nelson Johnson
Titel
Boardwalk Empire
Untertitel
The Birth, High Times and the Corruption of Atlantic City
Autor
EAN
9781446447857
ISBN
978-1-4464-4785-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
03.02.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.37 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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