| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West. By Hal K. Rothman. Edited by Lincoln Bramwell. Foreword by William deBuys. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xx + 262 pp. Illustrations, index. $24.95, paper.)

Among the many traits that distinguished Hal Rothman was productivity. By the time ALS cut his life short in February 2007 at age 48, he had published sixteen books and numerous other monographs and articles. He had also become a prolific contributor to newspapers, magazines, radio, and other media, explaining contemporary Las Vegas and the West to non-scholarly audiences. The University of New Mexico Press has now published a highly readable collection of sixty-six Rothman columns and essays, mostly devoted to southern Nevada, but with some addressing the broader region. Written between 1998 and 2006, the great majority appeared after 2003.

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