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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and the Corruption of Atlantic City
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9780091941253
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Publisher
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Ebury Press
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Subject
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History
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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304
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Year
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2011
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Through most of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson - the second of the three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society. In "Boardwalk Empire", Nucky Johnson, Louis 'the Commodore' Kuehnle, Frank 'Hap' Farley, and Atlantic City itself spring to life in all their garish splendour. Author Nelson Johnson traces 'AC' from its birth as a quiet seaside health resort, through the notorious backroom politics and power struggles, to the city's rebirth as an international entertainment and gambling mecca where anything goes. "Boardwalk Empire" is the true story that inspired the epic HBO series starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Kelly Macdonald. "As good, if not better, than the television series". ("Independent").
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Author Biography
Nelson Johnson's family lived in Atlantic County before the city was founded, and he is himself a lifelong resident of Hammonton, New Jersey. He practiced law for 30 years, and was attorney for the Atlantic City Planning Board at the time many applications for the building of the casinos were approved. Fascinated by the complicated history of Atlantic City, Nelson spent almost two decades interviewing, researching and writing to create Boardwalk Empire.
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