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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson Yiddish Learning a book that comes toIn a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel (19061947) rose from desperate poverty to illgotten riches, from an earlytwentiethcentury 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,