Casino Vapors: Fear and Loathing in Hot Springs

“Weissino Casino”: Fear and Hatred in Hot-Springs ”is the story of the first American capital of vice, woven into the fate of the main characters, who ended up in the epicenter of the events of the Golden Decades, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Hot- Springs, on the one hand, was the edge of healing waters, architectures in the style of Ar-Deco and the first national park of America, on the other hand, the place of races and almost a dozen illegal casinos and brothels. Gangsters, players and scammers: they flocked here to make themselves a condition and hide from the harsh hand of the law. David Hill reveals all the cards of the city - from the dark past racial segregation to organized crime, from the dizzying rise of the gambling business to their control over the stuffing of the ballots in the elections. Romance prose, filled with sounds and images of American entertainment - jazz orchestras and slot machines, skillful auctionists and dressed comedians - this is an exciting look at the past era of American vice