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Review: Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream , by Michael Shnayerson

2021; University of California Press; Volume: 90; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/phr.2021.90.4.560

1533-8584

Michael Green,

History of Science and Medicine

Book Review| November 01 2021 Review: Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, by Michael Shnayerson Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream. By Michael Shnayerson. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2021. 248 pp.) Michael Green Michael Green University of Nevada, Las Vegas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2021) 90 (4): 560–561. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2021.90.4.560 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Green; Review: Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, by Michael Shnayerson. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2021; 90 (4): 560–561. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2021.90.4.560 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Michael Shnayerson notes that his entry in the “Jewish Lives” book series from Yale University Press is the first that does not describe and analyze an admirable figure, though Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel had some admirable qualities besides being a gangster. Shnayerson neither glosses over Siegel’s behavior nor claims completely visionary status for him. Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream analyzes Siegel in often vivid and stylish prose. It offers valuable information about Siegel, his colleagues (legitimate and otherwise), and his milieu. It tries to unpack the convoluted story of whose idea the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas was and how Siegel ended up running it. Unfortunately, the book also falls short, historically and analytically. The analytical problems concern context. Although he correctly notes the importance of World War II and the postwar era to what Siegel... © 2021 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2021 You do not currently have access to this content.