Eugene P. Moehring analyses the development of Reno and Las Vegas since 1945, with special emphasis on the years after 1970. Moehring provides an engaging, informative, and readable history of the divergent paths that Reno and Las Vegas took over the past forty years.

Eugene P. Moehring, a native of Brooklyn, is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 and Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 and coauthor of Las Vegas: A Centennial History, among other works.