Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He
was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in "The Great Gatsby" and
Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls." It was rumored he masterminded
the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of
corruption holding court from his private booth at Lindy's
Restaurant.
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. 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.
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