Rothstein (Pietrusza David
Rothstein (Pietrusza David History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. The real-life model…
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Rothstein (Pietrusza David
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more--and less--than a fixer of baseball games.
Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Among his monikers were "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords,
Rothstein (Pietrusza David