The Resource The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice, David Hill
The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice, David Hill
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The item The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice, David Hill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in McCracken County Public Library.
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- Summary
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- Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He reveals how the louche underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton
- Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America's original national park, as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country's most bald-faced criminals. Gangsters, gamblers, and gamines: all once flocked to America's forgotten capital of vice, a place where small-town hustlers and bigtime high-rollers could make their fortunes, and hide from the law This is the extraordinary story of three individuals, spanning the golden decades of Hot Springs, from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the lavish casino whose spectacular rise and fall would bring them together before blowing them apart
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr., 33 min.)
- Note
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- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Isbn
- 9781713500605
- Label
- The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice
- Title
- The vapors
- Title remainder
- a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice
- Statement of responsibility
- David Hill
- Subject
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- Audiobooks
- Audiobooks
- Crime
- Crime -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- Gambling
- Gambling -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- Hot Springs (Ark.) -- History
- Hot Springs (Ark.) -- History -- 20th century
- Madden, Owney, 1891-1980
- Madden, Owney, 1891-1980
- Mafia
- Mafia -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- True crime stories
- True crime stories
- 1900-1999
- Arkansas -- Hot Springs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He reveals how the louche underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton
- Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America's original national park, as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country's most bald-faced criminals. Gangsters, gamblers, and gamines: all once flocked to America's forgotten capital of vice, a place where small-town hustlers and bigtime high-rollers could make their fortunes, and hide from the law This is the extraordinary story of three individuals, spanning the golden decades of Hot Springs, from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the lavish casino whose spectacular rise and fall would bring them together before blowing them apart
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hill, David
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- F419.H8
- LC item number
- H55 2020ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Performed by George Newbern
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Newbern, George
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hot Springs (Ark.)
- Crime
- Madden, Owney
- Hot Springs (Ark.)
- Mafia
- Gambling
- Madden, Owney
- Mafia
- Gambling
- Crime
- Arkansas
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice, David Hill
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
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- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1157237288
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr., 33 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781713500605
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- s
- Other control number
- 9781713500605
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Stock number
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- 30e3bs
- 10e3bs
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1157237288
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The vapors : a southern family, the New York mob, and the rise and fall of Hot Springs, America's forgotten capital of vice, David Hill
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1157237288
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr., 33 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781713500605
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9781713500605
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Stock number
-
- 30e3bs
- 10e3bs
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1157237288
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Audiobooks
- Crime
- Crime -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- Gambling
- Gambling -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- Hot Springs (Ark.) -- History
- Hot Springs (Ark.) -- History -- 20th century
- Madden, Owney, 1891-1980
- Madden, Owney, 1891-1980
- Mafia
- Mafia -- Arkansas | Hot Springs -- History
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- True crime stories
- True crime stories
- 1900-1999
- Arkansas -- Hot Springs
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