EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.,
March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/
-- Former Nevada Governor Bob
Miller will be signing his new book, Son of a Gambling
Man, My Journey from a Casino Family
to the Governor's Mansion, from 10:00
a.m. to noon at the Hudson News store in Terminal 1 at
McCarran Las Vegas International Airport on Friday, March 15. This is an open to the public,
pre-screening area of the airport.
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The book is a memoir of growing up in Sin City. When
Bob Miller arrived in Las Vegas as a boy, it was a small, dusty
city, a far cry from the glamorous, exciting place it is today.
Bob's father, Ross Miller, was a
tough guy but a good family man, who had operated on both sides of
the law on some of the meaner streets of industrial Chicago, and brought his family to
Las Vegas so he could create a
legitimate career out of gaming.
In the book's foreword, former President Bill Clinton wrote: "Bob's journey could only
have happened in Nevada. His
memoir gives us a unique, entertaining, and thought-provoking
glimpse of how Las Vegas evolved
from its outcast roots to the modern metropolis nicknamed 'the
All-American City.'"
As Bob Miller grew up, so did
Vegas; the city's population doubled every decade during the 1900's
and Las Vegas was now a "town" of
some two million. Ross Miller became
a respectable businessman and partner in a major casino, though he
was still capable of settling a score with his fists.
Bob went on to law school, entering law enforcement and then
politics. His father's background would make entering the political
arena a gamble, but making his father proud of him became his chief
motivator as he ascended through the political ranks of
Nevada, eventually becoming
governor. The Miller family's legacy continues. Bob's own
son is presently serving as Secretary of State in Nevada.
Published by Thomas Dunne Books on
March 12, the book is priced at
$26.99.
About Hudson Group: Hudson Group, the largest duty-paid
travel retailer in North America,
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of international travel retailer Dufry
AG (DUFN) of Basel, Switzerland.
The company operates some 700 Hudson News, Hudson Booksellers,
cafes, specialty retail and duty free shops in 70 airports
and transportation terminals in the
United States and Canada,
and additional newsstands in 12 more countries around the world.
The combined Dufry/Hudson entity oversees over 1,200 stores in 43
countries and 155 airports and transportation terminals.
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