This book features a look at the Lansky family from outside of the fishbowl of mafiadom. I've read a couple of negative reviews about how this book was all about her and not her father....clearly, it is a book about her life. She was a child. She probably did not understand the inner workings of an organized crime family. She tells about HER life from HER perspective. There are other works about Meyer Lansky the gangster that would be more suitable if one wanted to read about him specifically. Sandra Lanksy was a spoiled little kid, who loved her father beyond measure. Her father was in a position financially to spoil her absolutely rotten, and I believe he did a great job of that. In so many of the mafia books I have read, it talks about how they separate themselves a lot of the time from their actual family life in an effort to keep the business out of their families lives- partially in an attempt to keep them safe and partially in an attempt to keep them from having information to give to authorities. It was interesting to read an account from someone on the other side of the veil. I enjoyed the book, and think other people would if they approached it from the viewpoint that it is not a biography on Meyer Lansky.