Description

Supplying the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series made by School Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this captivating and broad-reaching background examines the sordid past of Atlantic City—forever a freewheeling community long-focused on the quick buck—from the area's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its revival as the best casino location in the current era. A colourful cast of effective figures, brought by “Commodore” Kuehnle and “Nucky” Brown, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the poisonous energy framework that became out-of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic Cityis shadowy past—through its rise, fall, and rebirth—is provided fresh lighting in this revealing, and generally terrible, research of legal neglect and organized crime.