

Bugsy Siegel
The Dark Side of the American Dream
Author: Michael Shnayerson
Series: Jewish Lives
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/09/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Organized Crime
Synopsis
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.