Rothstein

The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

By: David Pietrusza

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Paperback | 13 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. 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. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. 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. 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. 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, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein’s November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll’s place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.

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Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. ix
The Players in Our Drama	p. xiii
"I've Been Shot"	p. 1
"Nobody Loves Me"	p. 15
"Everyone Gambled"	p. 23
"Why Not Get Married?"	p. 41
"I've Got Plans"	p. 52
"He'll Crucify the Big Feller"	p. 66
"Let's Go Looking for Some Action"	p. 92
"Take Any Price"	p. 104
"Chicken Feed"	p. 123
"I Never Take My Troubles to the Cops"	p. 136
"Am Wiring You Twenty Grand"	p. 147
"I Wasn't In On It"	p. 169
"The Chic Thing to Have Good Whiskey"	p. 193
"The Man to See Was Arnold Rothstein"	p. 209
"I Can't Trust a Drunk"	p. 219
"I Don't Bet On ... Boxing"	p. 232
"I'm Not a Gambler"	p. 244
"I Will Be Alone"	p. 268
"Will I Pull Through?"	p. 284
Cover-up: "A Decenter, Kinder Man I Never Knew"	p. 294
"Tell Me Who is Using My Money for Dope"	p. 316
Aftermath: "A Wonderful Box"	p. 330
Case Closed: "I Did It, You Know"	p. 343
Epilogue	p. 357
Notes	p. 388
Bibliography	p. 450
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Index	p. 467
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The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

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