Bücher von Larry D. Gragg

In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination, and emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot. Becoming America's Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in these transformative years.

This intriguing biography recounts the life of the legendary Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, revealing his true role in the development of Las Vegas and debunking some of the common myths about his notoriety.

A Quest for Security is the first book-length biography of Samuel Parris, the man who led the 1692 struggle against the scourge of witchcraft. The book then recounts the eight years Parris spent in Salem Village as that divided community's pastor.