Bibliograph

Bugsy Siegel, the dark side of the American dream, Michael Shnayerson

Type

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Bugsy Siegel, the dark side of the American dream, Michael Shnayerson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bugsy Siegel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1184239411

Responsibility statement

Michael Shnayerson

Series statement

Jewish lives

Sub title

the dark side of the American dream

Summary

"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"--publisher description

Target audience

adult

Classification