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Paperback Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort Book
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ISBN: 0822347024

ISBN13: 9780822347026

Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort

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Satan's Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town "Satan's Playground," unintentionally increasing its licentious...

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