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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City

Overview

Before the Donald, there was the Commodore, Nucky, Jimmy, Stumpy, and Hap
From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reaching history offers a riveting account of its past 100 years--from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era. A colorful cast of characters, led by Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the toxic power structure that grew out of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic City's shadowy past--through its rise, fall, and rebirth--is given new light in this revealing, and often appalling, study of legislative abuse and organized crime. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Nelson Johnson

Nelson Johnson, whose family's presence in Atlantic County predates the founding of Atlantic City, is a lifelong resident of Hammonton, New Jersey. He practiced law for 30 years and was active in Atlantic City and Atlantic County politics through much of that period.

As attorney for the Atlantic City Planning Board at the time of the approvals for many of the casinos, Johnson was inspired first to make sense of Atlantic City and later to write an objective political history.

The interviews, research, and writing involved in preparing Boardwalk Empire span nearly two decades. Johnson's follow-up to Boardwalk Empire is The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City, from Plexus Publishing, Inc.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Plexus Publishing, Inc.

  • Publish Date

    September 01, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    9780966674866

  • eBook ISBN

    9780966674873

  • Imprint

    Plexus Publishing, Inc.

  • Filesize

    2.55 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    312

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