num_pages: 351
description: This book tracks the rise and fall of an underworld culture that bred some of America's greatest racketeers, bootleggers, gamblers, and professional killers, examining the careers of such high-profile figures as Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
language: English
title: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
titlecomplete: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
genres: True Crime, History, American History, Crime, New York, Nonfiction, Jewish
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Columbia University Press