Bill Friedman is author of “30 Illegal Years To The Strip”, which covers the activities of the leaders of the three biggest Prohibition gangs, and then their elegant illegal casino/nightclubs across the country, before they built 80% of the early Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace 1966. He also wrote “All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops”, the fast-action true-crime stories with shocking political exposes. He is author of the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business Casino Mana Bill Friedman is author of “30 Illegal Years To The Strip”, which covers the activities of the leaders of the three biggest Prohibition gangs, and then their elegant illegal casino/nightclubs across the country, before they built 80% of the early Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace 1966. He also wrote “All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops”, the fast-action true-crime stories with shocking political exposes. He is author of the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business Casino Management. He taught the pioneer course in casino management for the University of Nevada Las Vegas’ College of Hotel Administration in the early years during the decade of the 1970s. Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group, which specializes in solving casino marketing, design, and operations problems. He has consulted for forty years to casinos throughout the United States and in England, South Africa, Monaco, Australia, Russia, Canada, and several Caribbean Islands. Friedman was president and general manager of the Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for thirteen years. He transformed them from perennial losers into super successes, consistently in the top of Nevada’s highest profit-per-square-foot performers. ...more