This book is a comprehensive biography of the infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel. It covers his life from his humble beginnings in Brooklyn to his rise to power in the criminal underworld of the 1920s and 1930s. It also examines his legacy, including his role in
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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, Siegel was influential within the Jewish-American mob, the Italian-American Mafia, and the largely Italian-Jewish coalition known as the National Crime Syndicate. Described as "handsome" and "charismatic," Siegel became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.