Bugsy Siegel and the Postwar Boom

By Steven Otfinoski, Ruth Ashby

Bugsy Siegel and the Postwar Boom
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The infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel started his career when he was just a boy in New York. Then he moved to California to exploit the rise of gambling and smuggling on the West Coast. But it wasn't until he helped create Las Vegas casinos in the 1940s that he really made his mark. Learn how he turned his dream into reality.