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- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Number of Pages: 320
- ISBN: 1416576568
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113294899
- Release Date: October 13, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #61504 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #119 in True Crime (See Top 100 True Crime Bestsellers)
- #17 in Organized Crime (See Top 100 Organized Crime Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Gerald Posner (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Miami Babylon: A Tale of Crime, Wealth, and Power" by Gerald Posner to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Miami Babylon: A Tale of Crime, Wealth, and Power"Browse more products related to "Gerald Posner"Publisher's noteThe untold story of Miami Beach, from the Mariel Boatlift and the cocaine cowboys to the hot and changing city it is today. A best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a history of a city plagued by crime for decades, from hustlers and flim-flam men of the 1920s to the crime-ridden ghetto reminiscent of Scarface in the 1980s to the city's one-generation transformation into a hip, decadent urban center. A best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a history of a city plagued by crime for decades, from hustlers and flim-flam men of the 1920s to the crime-ridden ghetto reminiscent of Scarface in the 1980s to the city's one-generation transformation into a hip, decadent urban center. AnnotationInvestigative reporter and bestselling author Gerald Posner (CASE CLOSED, WHY AMERICA SLEPT), along with his researcher and collaborator wife Trisha, turns his attention to the long history of vice, crime, corruption, and glamour in Miami Beach. It's a boom and bust and boom again tale that begins with the wild days of prohibition, then captures the city at its bleakest years in the 1960s and 1970s when poverty and crime were rampant, and then tracks the massive beachfront developments that rose in the 1980s, fueled by the drug trade, and a lifestyle famous for its decadence. Posner, a former lawyer, has dug up reams of salacious details, and has interviewed many of the towns power players and famous figures from its recent past. The result is a steamy, fast-paced, highly evocative portrait of city that should rival Las Vegas for the title "sin city." If You Enjoy "Miami Babylon: A Tale of Crime, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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