Rothstein : The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
by Pietrusza, DavidEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-09
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary
The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was much more than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Transporting readers onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the racetracks, showgirls, political movers-and-shakers, and sports stars, here is the biography of the devilishly beloved gangland dandy who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. David Pietrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Seriesplaying all sides off one another so that he alone could not loseand unravels the mystery of his November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room. A masterful portrait of a Roaring '20s legend filled with fascinating photographs, Pietrusza's award-nominated Rothstein cements the place of "The Big Bankroll" as the godfather of organized crime in America.
Table of Contents
| The Players in Our Drama | ix | ||
| CHAPTER 1 "I've Been Shot" | |||
| CHAPTER 2 "Nobody Loves Me" | 15 | (8) | |
| CHAPTER 3 "Everyone Gambled" | 23 | (18) | |
| CHAPTER 4 "Why Not Get Married?" | 41 | (11) | |
| CHAPTER 5 "I've Got Plans" | 52 | (14) | |
| CHAPTER 6 "He'll Crucify the Big Feller" | 66 | (26) | |
| CHAPTER 7 "Let's Go Looking for Some Action" | 92 | (12) | |
| CHAPTER 8 "Take Any Price" | 104 | (19) | |
| CHAPTER 9 "Chicken Feed" | 123 | (13) | |
| CHAPTER 10 "I Never Take My Troubles to the Cops" | 136 | (11) | |
| CHAPTER 11 "AM WIRING YOU TWENTY GRAND" | 147 | (22) | |
| CHAPTER 12 "I Wasn't In On It" | 169 | (24) | |
| CHAPTER 13 "The Chic Thing to Have Good Whiskey" | 193 | (16) | |
| CHAPTER 14 "The Man to See Was Arnold Rothstein" | 209 | (10) | |
| CHAPTER 15 "I Can't Trust a Drunk" | 219 | (13) | |
| CHAPTER 16 "I Don't Bet On...Boxing" | 232 | (12) | |
| CHAPTER 17 "I'm Not a Gambler" | 244 | (24) | |
| CHAPTER 18 "I Will Be Alone" | 268 | (16) | |
| CHAPTER 19 "Will I Pull Through?" | 284 | (10) | |
| CHAPTER 20 Cover-up: "A Decenter, Kinder Man I Never Knew" | 294 | (22) | |
| CHAPTER 21 "Tell Me Who is Using My Money for Dope" | 316 | (14) | |
| CHAPTER 22 Aftermath: "A Wonderful Box" | 330 | (13) | |
| CHAPTER 23 Case Closed: "I Did It, You Know" | 343 | (14) | |
| CHAPTER 24 Epilogue | 357 | (31) | |
| Notes | 388 | (62) | |
| Bibliography | 450 | (15) | |
| Acknowledgments | 465 | (2) | |
| Index | 467 |
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