Winner takes all : how casino mogul Steve Wynn won--and lost--the high stakes gamble to own Las Vegas / Christina Binkley.

"Originally published in hardcover by Hyperion Books in March 2008 and in trade paperback in March 2009" -- Title page verso.

Includes index.

Prologue : Friendly -- Bulldozed -- "Rifle right" -- Say "hair-uhs" -- 1989 -- The great race -- Blind -- Brass balls -- The outsiders -- High life -- Crushed velvet world -- Hungry alligator -- Taa-daaaah! -- Southern blues -- Implosion -- Miss Spectacular -- Chomp -- Walking on air -- Duped -- Propeller heads -- Avid -- Vice -- Picasso's penis -- Sunday night fever -- Caesars -- Return of the king -- Blind man's bluff -- Meta-Vegas -- No end -- Happy Place -- Elaine -- Time's up.

Wall Street Journal reporter Christina Binkley takes a close look at the trio of tycoons whose high-stakes gambles made Sin City soar. This is the story of how billions of dollars and the unparalleled drive for power made the personal visions of three moguls--Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman--evolve from dreams to larger-than-life reality.--From publisher description.