Description: In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel's story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
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EAN: 9780300226195
UPC: 9780300226195
ISBN: 9780300226195
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Item Length: 21.1 cm
Book Title: Bugsy Siegel: the Dark Side of the American Dream
Item Height: 217mm
Item Width: 160mm
Author: Michael Shnayerson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: True Crime
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 476g
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
