Part exposé, part x-rated travel guide -- the ultimate insider's look at America's adult playground
Vegas. It's a place where Midwestern couples become uninhibited swingers, where shy schoolgirls morph into sexy strippers pulling in $1,000 a night, and where randy tourists come to score at more than just blackjack and craps. What happens here, stays here -- and Vegas nightlife is hotter than it's ever been before.
In Skin City, journalist and longtime Vegas resident Jack Sheehan goes beyond the bright lights to explore the dark thrills of the city's sex industry. Both lurid and fascinating, here is an unabashed look at the stripping, swinging, hustling, and hooking that have turned a desert gaming metropolis into the world's capital of lascivious entertainment. But more than a no-holds-barred exposé, Sheehan's Skin City offers a connoisseur's catalogue of where to go for readers whose tastes run to the erotic -- with everything from valuable pointers from lap dancers, call girls, and vice cops to porn star Jenna Jameson's list of her favorite Vegas strip clubs.

Skin City: Behind the Scenes of the Las Vegas Sex Industry

History

Sheehan, Jack

Americas

William Morrow Paperbacks

A behind-the-scenes account of the pro tour shares the author's experiences of playing the PGA and Champion tours simultaneously; shares memorable events from the careers of such players as Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and Arnold Palmer; and describes heated rivalries between such competitors as Payne Stewart and Paul Azinger. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Embedded Balls

Sports & Outdoors

Jacobsen, Peter

Biographies

Berkley Trade

Sex. No other city in America capitalizes on the power of sex like Las Vegas. Author Jack Sheehan, a writer who has lived in Las Vegas for thirty years and knows the true dark side of the city, pulls back the curtain of the adult sex industry and examines the lives of the people give Sin City its naughty reputation. Jack was able to get XXX-rated film stars, the top madam in town, beautiful call girls who command $1,000 per hour and up, swingers, and the most alluring exotic dancers on the Strip to tell him everything, both on and off the job and how anything goes in the arena of sexual self-expression. 
Sheehan discusses his visit to the largest adult video convention in the world, accompanied by a porn star who has appeared in over 300 films, to attend the Adult Video News Awards. He then talks with Mayor Oscar Goodman, Sheriff Bill Young, and casino owner Steve Wynn to discuss their concerns over the sex industry's role in Las Vegas. Skin City focuses on those whose names will never be on marquees but are the ones who create the legendary mystique of Las Vegas. It's a story that's never been told but lurks in the fantasies of us all.

Skin City: Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stephens Pr Llc

Class of '47 poses and attempts to answer the question was the Class of '47 the greatest class to ever emerge from the United States Naval Academy. Through profiles of notable graduates ranging from President Jimmy Carter to Admiral James Stockdale and former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Vernon Weaver to investment banker Jackson Stephens, author Jack Sheehan provides an in-depth look at these men and how their time in Annapolis deeply impacted their lives while at the academy and beyond.

Class of '47: Annapolis America's Best

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

[i]Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas[/i] pulls back the curtain on how Parry Thomas helped build modern Las Vegas. From his arrival in 1954, E. Parry Thomas believed in Las Vegas. While others scoffed at the desert gambling outpost, he envisioned the resort metropolis it would become. But it probably would not have happened without him. Taking charge of a tiny bank, Thomas built the institution by doing something his competitors would not: he loaned money to casino operators. Thomas' willingness to finance the boys with shady pasts helped transform Las Vegas into an international tourist mecca.Thomas, who for decades operated largely out of the spotlight, reveals how he and other Las Vegas pioneers made it all happen. Thomas describes the deals he made to build and expand Strip hotels such as the Sahara, Stardust, Sands and Riviera. He also provides fresh insights into the Howard Hughes years, as he played a key role in the reclusive billionaire's casino and real estate buying spree.

Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas: E. Parry Thomas

When listing the top movers and shakersin the history of Las Vegas gaming,Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and HowardHughes inevitably garner a mention.But such a list is incomplete without BillBennett - the Forgotten Man.While Wynn and other resort operatorscatered to high-rollers, Bennett focusedon middle-class Americans to fillhis hotel rooms and play his slot machines.He transformed Circus Circus from astruggling curiosity into the Strip's mostsuccessful resort.Forgotten Man, told through in-depthinterviews with family members, friends,employees, and others who knew Bennett,tells the story of a man who as much asanyone built modern Las Vegas.Bennett shared the lead with SteveWynn in reinventing the Strip during theearly '90s. Bennett and his dream team of"Young Turk" executives built the iconicExcalibur and Luxor resorts, which standout to this day on the Las Vegas skyline.The financier Michael Milken praises Bennettas "the Sam Walton of Las Vegas."But historians would be wise to focuson the empire that Bennett created, whichstarted with one failing property on theedge of bankruptcy and grew into morethan half a dozen thriving hotel-casinosthat have now been absorbed into thegiant MGM Resorts.

Forgotten Man: How Circus Circus's Bill Bennett Brought Middle America to Las Vegas

Historical

The Las Vegas Founders Club was the driving force behind the PGA Tour, Champions Tour, junior golf, UNLV golf, and, for a time, the LPGA Tour in Las Vegas for about a quarter century. The members of this prestigious group were the who's who of Las Vegas, and dedicated themselves to honoring the game while creating the blueprint of how to promote Las Vegas to the world via golf. The Club blossomed to public life in 1983 under the guidance of golf legend Jim Colbert, who convinced several Vegas power brokers to put up the first million-dollar purse in PGA Tour history. Since that seminal event which included 204 professionals and 832 amateurs over four golf courses, the Las Vegas Founders Club has awarded more than $14 million dollars to many worthwhile Las Vegas charitable organizations and helped create a UNLV golf program that won the 1998 NCAA title. And so much more... To honor the positive impact of the Club and members, this book was created to remember those who have gone before while acknowledging the future of professional golf in Las Vegas, now in the caring hands of the Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

City of Champions: The History of Professional Golf in Las Vegas

Arts & Photography

Hurlburt, Brian

Photography & Video

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