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Bugsy Siegel: the dark side of the American dream

Michael Shnayerson
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E-Book
Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Related Series:
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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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.0 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Lure of the Streets
  • 2. Marriage and Murder
  • 3. Sportsman in Paradise
  • 4. Masterminds of Murder Inc.
  • 5. Going After Big Greenie
  • 6. Flamingo
  • 7. Start of an Ill-Starred Romance
  • 8. Bugsy Takes Charge
  • 9. His Every Red Cent at Risk
  • 10. Flamingo's First Flight
  • 11. Time Runs Out.
Author/Creator:
Shnayerson, Michael , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Bugsy Siegel: the dark side of the American dream [by Shnayerson, M.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Bugsy Siegel [by Shnayerson, M.] (New Haven : Yale University Press,c2021 — ISBN 9780300226195)
Related Series:
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subjects:
Siegel, Bugsy, 1906-1947
Gangsters — United States — Biography
Organized crime — United States
Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.) — History
General Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 03, 2021).
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
HV6248.S5619 S56 2021eb
ISBNs:
9780300258103 (electronic book)
0300258100 (electronic book)
OCLC Numbers:
1231607881
Other Control Numbers:
2729758 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17100449