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[...]
A colorfully written account of a crime genius follows the life and career of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, throughout his tempestuous career as an underworld figure, introducing readers to the grimy world that clung to the glittering Jazz Age of New York City like a bar[...]