Citizen Wynn by Dennis McDougal

"McDougal (Operation White Rabbit, 2020) spares no details in this winning and insightful exposé
that chronicles Wynn’s stratospheric ascent to the top of the Vegas gaming industry
and his eventual free fall, fueled by hubris and reckless behavior."
—Booklist

Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down. Part Mafia history, part deeply researched social commentary, part Horatio Alger gone horribly awry, Citizen Wynn is a modern morality tale with instant appeal to 100 million Americans who gamble regularly as well as millions more who recognize the Wynn name from Macao to Monaco.

Investigative journalist Dennis McDougal is the author of thirteen books, including Dylan: The Biography and Five Easy Decades. A staff writer for two decades with the Los Angeles Times and frequent contributor to The New York Times, McDougal has been honored with more than forty awards, including Stanford University’s John S. Knight Fellowship, the Anne Sperber Award for the nation’s best media biography, a nomination for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, and the George Foster Peabody Award as co-producer of the 2009 PBS American Experience documentary Inventing L.A. based on McDougal’s bestselling Privileged Son.