Paul J. Vanderwood, Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort
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8 mars 2013
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Vivien Miller, « Paul J. Vanderwood, Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés, ID : 10.4000/chs.1307
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Agua Caliente, an opulent and stylish gaming resort with racetrack, casino, and hotel, opened in Tijuana, just south of the United States-Mexican border in June 1928. Patronised by Hollywood movie moguls, glamorous film star celebrities, aristocrats, and diplomats as well as the hoi poloi, it quickly established itself as the “Playground of the Hemisphere” (p1). Sports, vice, commercialised leisure, and numerous entertainments had boomed in Tijuana in the years after the 1910 Mexican Revoluti...