UID:
almahu_9949297003902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (248 p.) :
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1 b-w illus.
ISBN:
9780300258103
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9783110754001
Serie:
Jewish Lives
Inhalt:
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip";Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . 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] brisk-reading chronicle.";-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal 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. 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.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Prologue --
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1. The Lure of the Streets --
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2. Marriage and Murder --
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3. Sportsman in Paradise --
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4. The Masterminds of Murder Inc. --
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5. Going After Big Greenie --
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6. The Flamingo --
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7. The Start of an Ill-Starred Romance --
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8. Bugsy Takes Charge --
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9. His Every Red Cent at Risk --
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10. The Flamingo's First Flight --
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11. Time Runs Out --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Acknowledgments --
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Index --
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Published titles
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754193
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753974
In:
Yale University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739237
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300258103
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780300258103
