| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 388 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

"No one," write Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis, "has ever before stopped to ask the people of Las Vegas what they think of their place" (p. 14). 1

That assertion launches what the two editors describe as "a locals' collection" of articles about the fastest growing urban region in the United States (p. 14). With its tabloid title and warts-and-all jacket photograph (the Luxor Resort half-obscured behind the dusty ensemble of an empty parking lot, a broken-down Chevrolet, and an anchored r.v.), The Grit beneath the Glitter makes a fair bid for bringing focus to the dreamy apparition of neon, polyester, and ostrich plumage that presents itself to Americans content with a tourist's glimpse of Sin City. . . .

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