Las Vegas and the Mob

Running Head : Les Vegas

Las Vegas and the Mob

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Introduction

Brutal force has not won anything durable ' said Adolph Hitler , the man responsible for killing millions of people of a particular race whom he did not like , at the time of Second World War . The purpose of the book , The Bloodthirsty lusty life of Benjamin Bugsy ' is the rise and the fall of a criminal , who killed people for no reason , with the slightest provocation . What were the mysteries of life and death of

Benjamin and what brought him to the dastardly path of unimaginable criminality

His world and the underworld

Carpozi begins the book with a bang . He writes , This is the story of an unlamented , arrogant , killer who rose to malodorous eminence as one of the chief executioners for the infamous Murder Inc . mob (Carpozi 1992 ,

.9 ) He belonged to a poor family , but it did not have any criminal background at all , to produce and evolve a criminal like Benjamin . Once he took to the path of crimes , there was no looking back The other vices , related to criminality hotly pursued him . Soon , he was amidst the fortune of ill-gotten wealth . The author is trying to prove that it is easy to advance in the area of criminality ( with little bit of luck as well ) and the attractions of criminal career are so much in rich countries like USA , one finds it difficult to return to normal life , once involved in it . Were there any compulsive circumstances that made him criminal ? Did the society to which he belonged constantly nagged , abused , condemned and ostracized him ? Benjamin 's life had no such incidents or background . He was fated to be the worst villain and the reasons for such an evolution were perhaps not known to him as well .The author is quite successful in introducing Benjamin and gives the positive message to the younger generation , that ill-gotten wealth will lead one nowhere . A separate chapter on morals and ethics would have been ideal . There is a possibility that the half-baked and educated criminals may be tempted to tread the path of criminality and gambling to amass wealth . There is nothing as such to dislike in the book and the human element is treated with humanism by the author . The picture of his helpless mother often floats in the mind . Benjamin lived an inglorious life , and even the aftermath of his death , must have initiated several legal battles of claims and counterclaims on his wealth and property The eighteen chapters of the book , from , Up from the slums to Bugsy 's Dream Come True , have been well-crafted . Carpozi writes well . The fact can not be denied that Benjamin transformed a sandy desert wasteland into a multi-million dollar business called Las Vegas (Back Cover Carpozi , 1992 ) Benjamin was a man of initiative and drive , and if he had taken to the right path , he could as well have been successful like his childhood pal...