Mark proposes an "Author meets critics" session on his new book, Las Vegas : The Social Production of an All-American City (with Claudia C. Collins & David R. Dickens). Published February, 1999, Press Here for Amazon.com reviews. Douglas Kellner and Steve Best will do the roast. This book provides an historical account of the sunbelt city phenomenon. It reviews the boom and bust pattern of development, the tourism, the increasing importance of themed mega-resorts and fantasy vacations, gambling as a source of municipal revenue, demographic and social changes, a rapidly growing metropolitan environment, social problems, and family life in the shadow of a gambling mecca.