Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas »

Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr. Gary Loveman are building a bigger and better Las Vegas and how their influence is spreading beyond the city's borders.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Krim

…[an] important and detailed account…Binkley vividly conveys the repulsiveness of the scene, but as with train wrecks, you just can't stop looking. Or reading.

Contents Prologue: FRIENDLY....................ix
One: BULLDOZED....................1
Two: "RIFLE RIGHT"....................5
Three: SAY "HAIR-UHS"....................18
Four: 1989....................21
Five: THE GREAT RACE....................31
Six: BLIND....................41
Seven: BRASS BALLS....................44
Eight: THE OUTSIDERS....................62
Nine: HIGH LIFE....................70
Ten: CRUSHED VELVET WORLD....................84
Eleven: HUNGRY ALLIGATOR....................101
Twelve: TAA-DAAAAH!....................103
Thirteen: SOUTHERN BLUES....................106
Fourteen: IMPLOSION....................119
Fifteen: MISS SPECTACULAR....................132
Sixteen: CHOMP....................145
Seventeen: WALKING ON AIR....................157
Eighteen: DUPED....................164
Nineteen: PROPELLER HEADS....................169
Twenty: AVID....................183
Twenty-one: VICE....................190
Twenty-two: PICASSO'S PENIS....................199
Twenty-three: SUNDAY NIGHT FEVER....................217
Twenty-four: CAESARS....................230
Twenty-five: RETURN OF THE KING....................240
Twenty-six: BLIND MAN'S BLUFF....................256
Twenty-seven: META-VEGAS....................266
Twenty-eight: NO END....................283
Author's Note....................285
Bibliography....................287
Index....................291