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100 1 $aPietrusza, David,$d1949-
245 10 $aRothstein :$bthe life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 World Series /$cDavid Pietrusza.
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf Publishers ;$a[S.l.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c2004, c2003.
300 $axx, 485 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 450-463) and index.
505 0 $aPlayers in our drama: I've been shot -- Nobody loves me -- Everyone gambled -- Why not get married? -- I've got plans -- He'll crucify the big feller -- Let's go looking for some action -- Take any price -- Chicken feed -- I never take my troubles to the cops -- Am wiring you twenty grand -- I wasn't in on it -- Chic thing to have a good whiskey -- Man to see was Arnold Rothstein -- I can't trust a drunk -- I don't bet on ... boxing -- I'm not a gambler -- I will be alone -- Will I pull through? -- Cover-up: Decenter, kinder man I never knew -- Tell me who is using my money for dope -- Aftermath: Wonderful box -- Case closed: I did it, you know -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
520 $aA colorfully written account of a crime genius. Rothstein follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The book follows his tempestuous career throughout, as an underworld figure, and introduces readers to the grimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a barnacle. 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 Series, playing all sides off one another so that he alone could not lose, and 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.
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