The original book that inspired Boardwalk Empire, the award-winning, prohibition-era HBO series from Martin Scorsese and the producers of The Sopranos
Nelson Johnson's family lived in Atlantic County before the city was founded, and he is himself a lifelong resident of Hammonton, New Jersey. He practiced law for 30 years, and was attorney for the Atlantic City Planning Board at the time many applications for the building of the casinos were approved. Fascinated by the complicated history of Atlantic City, Nelson spent almost two decades interviewing, researching and writing to create Boardwalk Empire.
As good, if not better, than the television series
*Independent*
The book is full of compelling anecdotes and characters ... Nucky
Johnson's description of Atlantic City is equally applicable to
Nelson Johnson's book: "We have whiskey, wine, women, song, and
slot machines. I won't deny it and I won't apologise for it"
*Telegraph*
Enthralling ... Johnson deftly straddles centuries while using
nearly 20 years of research and an energetic, novelist style to
bring to life the mobsters, bootleggers and bent politicians behind
Atlantic City's rise and fall
*Shortlist*
Fascinating
*Daily Express*
Stranger, and scarier, than any fiction
*Independent*
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