David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into a professional industry replete with set designers, stage directors, and method actors whose dazzling illusions tempt even the shrewdest of customers. As entertaining and illuminating as the confessional stories it recounts, "On the Make" is a fascinating expose of the smoke and mirrors employed in the city at night.
- ISBN10 1281956929
- ISBN13 9781281956927
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Pages 286
- Language English