Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . In this captivating portrait,…
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Bugsy Siegel
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing detail, Shnayerson] enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative."--Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York Times Book Review "A fun, absorbing read that helps make sense of an emotionally complex gangster."--Scott Bradfield, SpectatorIn 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.