Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money.
It is an elegy to old New York that places an iconic, larger-than-life criminal kingpin firmly at the center of nothing less than the hiStory of the entire Western world..
In this lively, sprawling biography, the inimitable Nick Tosches -- one of the Greatest living American writers ( Dallas Observer ) -- examines the myth and extraordinary legacy of Arnold Rothstein.
Broadway, a King of corruption holding court from his private booth at Lindy\'s Restaurant.
He was Mr.
It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix.
He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls .
Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money
