Monday, December 28, 2009

"With the Exception of Las Vegas, There Is no American City as Deeply Silly"

"Henry Flagler. Al Capone. Meyer Lansky. Frank Sinatra. The Fontainebleau. Old Jews. The Cubans. 'Scarface.' Edna Buchanan. Cocaine cowboys. More old Jews. More Cubans. Don Aronow. The Forge. Carlos Lehder. Crooked cops. Art Deco. More old Jews. The South Beach revival. Gays. Discos. Fewer old Jews. Real estate developers. Madonna. Gianni Versace. That mobbed-up Staten Island kid with the nightclubs. And, of course, Crockett and Tubbs. There must be Crockett and Tubbs."

Bryan Burrough in The New York Times reviews Gerald Posner’s Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power—A Dispatch From the Beach.

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