A review by mirage88
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William C. Rempel

2.0

The first 25% or so of the book is really engaging, reading the story of someone who had nothing and how he turned that into massive business opportunities. As is pretty much always the case it was by taking out big loans that paid off, but interesting to see the gambling personality that led to that and his choice to do it on aviation he learned in the war was a cool story. The rest of the Las Vegas development stuff and deal-making was boring business details. Wouldn't recommend this for how dry and overly long it is without ever having any real insight on the man and his thought process. Really just a laundry list of the details of deals rather than anything of interest or that you could take away from it.