Cult Vegas: The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin'est Town on Earth

by Mike Weatherford 

     Just about every subject of lingering cult fascination, from James Bond and Bela Lugosi to Lili St. Cyr and “Pussycat” Tura Satana, has a Las Vegas connection. And Cult Vegas is the first—the only!—entertainment history that puts them all together.

     Cult Vegas resurrects the golden-age of Sin City: Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Ann-Margret, Redd Foxx, the Treniers, Charo, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett, and more. This book captures the cool without forgetting the kitsch.

     The extreme, the awful, the camp, and the sublime—it’s all here in this freewheeling tribute to a half-century of entertainment that can only be collectively described as “Vegas.”

 

247 pages • TRADE PAPER
10-Digit ISBN: 0-929712-71-4 • 13-Digit ISBN: 978-0-929712-71-0 • $19.95us