Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas is a 2008 nonfiction book written by Christina Binkley.[1]
Winner Takes All recounts the real estate development history of the Las Vegas Strip between 1998 and 2007.[2] The book primarily covers three major corporate deals: Kirk Kerkorian's 2000 purchase of Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts; MGM Mirage's 2004 buyout of Mandalay Resort Group; and Gary Loveman's Harrah's 2004 takeover of Caesars.[3][4]
From 1997 to 2005, Binkley was the lead Las Vegas reporter for The Wall Street Journal.[2][5] She spent two years additional years conducting research for the book from 2005 to 2007.[5]
The book's narrative cohesion was criticized by The New York Times.[1] The book was praised in the Nevada Historical Quarterly as an insightful window into high-stakes corporate brinksmanship, but was criticized for its historical inaccuracies.[2]