New Book. How the Mob turned Las Vegas into a world destination creating The Rat Pack-Sixty Years Ago. “Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit” Sixty years ago, in February of 1960, a carefully designed event was unveiled in Las Vegas, Nevada. Titled “The Summit” the spectacular would last over three weeks and would include the greatest entertainment icons of that era. Led by “The Chairman of the Board” Frank Sinatra it included his “pals” Dean Martin, Sammy Davis,Jr. , Joey Bishop and Kennedy brother-in-law Peter Lawford. Now a new book, Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit which debuts later this month, exclusively unveils how an intense, brilliant blueprint developed by the mob bosses of Las Vegas along with their high paid publicists would be developed to place Las Vegas on the world map. For over 20 days, Las Vegas became the epicenter of the world. All eyes were on the party in Sin City that was anchored at The Sands Hotel and reverberated though-out the city. While the shenanigans-occurred during the night,during the day the group, which became known as The Rat Pack, was shooting a major motion picture from Warner Brothers called Ocean’s Eleven that would debuted in August 1960. And for three days of the Summit, the group would welcome a sixth member, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy which was carefully coordinated between his brother-in- law Peter Lawford and his father,Joe Kennedy. The event would usher in the swinging sixties and the era of Camelot until the bubble was burst on that fateful day in November of 1963. The book featured explosive new stories about The Rat Pack, The Mob and how a mediocre comic named Joey Bishop became a star with the help of his racketeer pals. Exclusive interviews with the infamous mob bosses of Vegas including Moe Dalitz, Carl Cohen, Mickey Cohen, Billy Weinberger and others tell the real background how the mob carefully used Sinatra and friends to make Las Vegas a world destination More at our free blog https://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com/new-book-how-the-mob-turned-las-vegas-into-a-world-destination-creating-the-rat-pack-sixty-years-ago-deconstructing-the-rat-pack-joey-the-mob-and-the-summit/