The high-stakes battle between two casino titans over the Vegas of the East Coast.
It's all quiet now on the eastern front of the American gaming industry��tlantic City, New Jersey��ut for five chaotic years, real estate developer Richard ��kip��Bronson was at the white-hot
center of a titanic clash of money and power that transformed Atlantic City from a struggling day-tripper place with buses in and out to a born again destination drawing tourists from New
York, Philadelphia, and other major cities along the eastern seaboard.
From 1995 to 2000, two of the world's best-known companies��Mirage Resorts and Trump Resorts��un by two of the most flamboyant businessmen of our time, fought a bare-knuckled, high-stakes
battle over a prime piece of real estate in one of America's most famous resort towns. No money was spared, no punch was pulled, no invective went unhurled in "The War at the Shore." Now
Bronson, who was a member of the board of directors of Mirage and president of New City Development Company, the Mirage subsidiary whose primary purpose was to build a top-level new casino
and hotel complex in Atlantic City, tells the inside story of this epic struggle.
Along the way, Bronson weaves in fascinating and inspiring anecdotes from his complicated past: A product of a fractured family and city-owned housing project in Hartford, Connecticut; former
paperboy, spelling bee champion yet college dropout; and prolific developer of shopping centers and office buildings��ncluding CityPlace, Connecticut's tallest skyscraper, Bronson embodies
the self-made business success story. Gripping from beginning to end, The War at the Shore is a rare up-close look at the world of casino development and the essential modern chapter
in the history of America's ��oardwalk Empire.��BR>
