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The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice

text The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice

Summary
Before Vegas was big, Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, art deco splendor, horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless bank rooms and brothels, and some of the country's most bald-faced criminals. Hill follows three ind... Read more
Contents

Prologue -- Water -- Fire -- Holy Ghost -- Repentance -- Pentecost -- Epilogue.

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Description
xii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2020

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 976.7 HIL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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