Showing Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires by Kristoffer A. Garin
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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2006-6-1 Pages: 366 Publisher: Penguin In this terrifically entertaining history. Kristoffer A. Garinchronicles the cruise-ship industry. from its rise in the earlysixties. to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show TheLove Boat. to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen taxdodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism matewith cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge US tax. labor. andenvironmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing theworld a new form of leisure. A colorful and compellingbehind-the-scenes narrative. Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is adefinitive look at the industry and its robber barons who createdfloating empires.