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9 ore fa · Slater gives center stage to Arnold Rothstein, the infamous dean of gangland, who was accused of fixing the 1919 World Series and inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write “The Great Gatsby.”
23 ore fa · Down on the East Side, far from the Broadway of Arnold Rothstein’s New York, Lillian Lieben and Antonia Rolnick lived on “Jewish Broadway,” or Grand Street. Back in 1900, the New York Tribune wrote that “Grand Street is Broadway plus Fifth Avenue, only very much more so. Its wide sidewalks show more fashion to the […]
23 ore fa · Slater gives center stage to Arnold Rothstein, the infamous dean of gangland, who was accused of fixing the 1919 World Series and inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write “The Great Gatsby.” In the mode of Mrs. Mandelbaum, Rothstein was a criminal visionary who commanded a national network of bookmakers, bootleggers, blackmailers, drug dealers, con artists and corrupt lawmen.
2 giorni fa · Among them was Meyer Lansky, dubbed the kingpin of organized crime in America; Arnold Rothstein, known as “The Brain,” considered the pioneer executive of the nation’s crime wave in the ...
1 giorno fa · The episode image is a photo of Arnold Rothstein, taken on November 1, 1919, which appeared in several newspaper stories about the Black Sox scandal; it’s in the public domain and available via Wikimedia Commons. Additional Sources: “ The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898 to 1906,” Library of Congress.
1 giorno fa · We meet villains called “Lefty Louie,” “Bald Jack,” “Dopey Benny,” “Joe the Greaser” and—memorably—Arnold Rothstein. There are the benefactors, too, among them names like ...
23 ore fa · If this was the sole substance of Slater’s book, it would be a singularly worthy read. Yet it is so much more. The Incorruptibles is a compelling crime story, colorful history and an ominous warning about antisemitism. Dan Slater’s vibrant The Incorruptibles chronicles the homegrown vice squad that took down New York City’s most notorious ...
