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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)
Bottom of the pile
24
/100
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Readers
31/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Michael Shnayerson
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Date:
February 9, 2021
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from New York's Lower East Side of impoverished Jewish immigrants to a life of crime from the Big Apple to the glittering Las Vegas strip.
What The Reviewers Say
The man made for good copy and, based on Michael Shnayerson’s fast-paced and absorbing biography in the Jewish Lives series, he still does. written in a rat-a-tat style where money jingles and the American dream is in reach.
Shnayerson’s...richly reported narrative is more than the portrait of a criminal; it’s a reminder of the lengths to which children of immigrants have gone in pursuit of the elusive American dream.
The author’s theory about the killer’s identity is novel but perfectly plausible—and in any event, 'Ben Siegel’s imprint on Vegas grows with each next brand-new super resort.' A highly readable, fast-moving contribution to the annals of 20th-century organized crime..
