Writing style
Descriptive · Direct · Journalistic
Apple BooksAt the Sands
History
- Print length
- 282 pagesWinchester Books, 2020
Description
David G. Schwartz traces the Sands Hotel and Casino from the site’s days as LaRue’s nightclub through the resort’s 1952 opening, uncertain beginnings, commercial ascent, and 1996 demolition. The Rat Pack’s celebrated run anchors the story, but Schwartz also examines the Sands before and after their dominance, placing its spectacles within a broader history of Las Vegas entertainment and resort management. Organized-crime origins, encounters with federal authorities, the Howard Hughes era, and the operators and personalities behind the property reveal how glamour depended on shifting systems of money, power, and control. By following one casino across four transformative decades, the book explains how the Sands became an emblem of classic Las Vegas and helped shape the city into an international resort destination.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Atmospheric · Earnest · Reflective
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Character · Information · World
Emotional intensity
2 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Winchester Books
- ISBN
- 9780990001669
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