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Forbidden Fruit
- Sin City's Underworld and the Supper Club Inferno
- De: Peter Bronson
- Narrado por: Rob Reider
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
The Beverly Hills Supper Club was Vegas before Vegas was cool. It was known as the "Showplace of the Nation" before it burned to the ground in 1977, killing at least 165 people - one of the worst fires in US history. But few knew that the Beverly Hills had a violent past of deadly arson beginning in 1936, when it was taken over by the Cleveland mob that ran "Sin City" in Newport, Kentucky - an open city of prostitution, extortion, gambling, and violence for decades, until new US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy went to war on the mob in 1961.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, with some very weird parts.
- De Kevlar314 en 11-14-21
- Forbidden Fruit
- Sin City's Underworld and the Supper Club Inferno
- De: Peter Bronson
- Narrado por: Rob Reider
A politicized mess
Revisado: 06-15-23
As others have stated, the authors personal political views sprinkled throughout the book with little reason or facts to back up why they mentioned in the first place interrupts the storytelling. It seems more of the aim of the author to take pot shots at modern politics than using the guise of the half telling facts of the supper club fire. If I wanted to hear conspiracy theories about President Obama and lectured on abortion, I would watch Fox News- it’s not relevant to the topic at hand. These interjections, and the needless “retelling” of supposed conversations with involved mob parties as if they were verbatim, left me with little desire to actually finish the book half way through.
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