Believe Me or Your Lying Eyes: An Entertaining History of Casinos, Corruption and Charities in America

This work tags Presidential involvement with casinos from Reagan, to George W. Bush and candidates from Giuliani to Barack Obama. Believe Me or Your Lying Eyes is a rare piece of entertaining writing. Beginning with the suspense expected of a crime mystery, the introduction opens admitting the extensive assembly of research presented on the ethics of our casino culture was inspired by the writer's personal experience. There are no boundaries. Slowly and modestly the author's personal story reveals a courageous testing of our scales of justice against wealth, gambling, money and presidential power. This extraordinary and gripping writing process begins with the 1990 development of a script for what was to become a well known movie. The intended script is disrupted by the deceit of a mysterious, soul casino developer that spreads from our justice system into the very politic of our nation. With a swelling of empirical evidence to proffer a splendid case against gambling, and corruption this book enjoyably counterbalances that rhetorical effort with an abstract personal analysis, through narratives which paint an unfailing sense of charity and humor. It is here that we begin to understand the importance of an exemplified narrative of heroism, not the kind described in romantic fiction, but that which lives within us through a shared human proportion and integrity. Although this book suggests that our next generation may witness an 'unbridled' casino rampage on our dollar and our human value that may weaken our very culture and way of life, this writing, without strain or falsity of tone, more importantly offers a useful function for humor and irony which in this exciting advocacy serves to hallow and encourage human self sacrifice. Believe Me or Your Lying Eyes bears an important message for all of us.