Summay of Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The streets of New York’s Lower East Side were what struck the immigrants first. The area was home to more than one million people, four thousand residents per block, more tightly packed than the population of Bombay, India. #2 The Siegels lived on the Lower East Side in New York, in a three-room apartment with no running water or indoor plumbing, the only light provided by kerosene lamps. The family was extremely poor, but they were very close. #3 Ben Siegel, the future gangster, grew up in the Lower East Side of New York City. He played outside as much as he could, and took in the curious signs around him. He had no idea why women with too much makeup flounced up and down the commercial streets, but he sensed the crowd’s disapproval of them. #4 By the age of twelve, Siegel was spending his days as he pleased: petty crime. He learned to hit up pushcart peddlers for protection, and when they didn’t pay a weekly fee, their pushcarts would be torched.