Bugsy SiegelIn a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel (19061947) 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