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

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Table of Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; The Players in Our Drama; Chapter 1 "I've Been Shot"; Chapter 2 "Nobody Loves Me"; Chapter 3 "Everyone Gambled"; Chapter 4 "Why Not Get Married?"; Chapter 5 "I've Got Plans"; Chapter 6 "He'll Crucify the Big Feller"; Chapter 7 "Let's Go Look for Some Action"; Chapter 8 "Take Any Price"; Chapter 9 "Chicken Feed"; Chapter 10 "I Never Take My Troubles to the Cops"; Chapter 11 "am wiring you twenty grand"; Chapter 12 "I Wasn't In On It"; Chapter 13 "The Chic Thing to Have GoodWhiskey"; Chapter 14 "The Man to See Was Arnold Rothstein.";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, poli.