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This is a fascinating visit to what the book's sub-title correctly calls the dark side of the american dream. Very factual. Only issue is i wish the author dove deeper in his childhood.
Michael shnayerson tells the story of how a jewish eastside kid under the tutelage of legendary mobster arnold rothstein rose to be among the top bootleggers in the 1920’s. It's a good dive into his life as a jewish gangster who had to really work his... Read More
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This volume is a waste of ink and paper. Not much texture and lack of photographs is very disappointing. It looks like someone was in a rush to cut the pages.
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Id give it five stars if it was just a bit more exciting to read as it does have a bit of a textbook quality but really a very good book
He moved from new york city to los angeles and with the aid former gangster and now actor george raft siegel become the toast of hollywood
Just as hollywood found fascination with the radical left in the 1960’s in the 1930’s hollywood was enamored with the gangster ... Read More
Ben “bugsy” siegel is the personification of what is wrong with the human condition at this point in evolution
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Bugsy siegel is a fascinating american character
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jewish, hollywood and great. - Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 25.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 441 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 8 2023.
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I was impressed by the few times when the author couldnt come to a definitive conclusion where they admitted there was some speculation and left the information available up to the reader to draw their own conclusions
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Of course being a fan of mafia subjects i knew quite a bit about siegel but not in this detail
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Nor did i know how really successful he was monetarily
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I didnt know how much so
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I got this while listening to the podcast 34mobbed up34
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His explanation is that the gangsters knew how violent people can be
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Although siegel get all of the credit for the creation of postwar las vegas much of the credit goes to his partner billy wilkerson publisher of the hollywood reporter and nightclub impresario
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However the problem was that siegel was a horrible construction boss and the project suffered from huge cost over runs that were funded by the mob
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