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Title: Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
Author: SHNAYERSON MICHAEL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 02/03/2021
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $34.95
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
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.
Series: Jewish Lives (Yale)
ISBN: 9780300226195
Weight: 666g
Dimension: 210mm X 146mm
Pages: 248