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Rothstein by David Pietrusza ROTHSTEIN
by David Pietrusza
read by Grover Gardner
Biography • Unabridged
Format EAN/ISBN Avail. Price Sale Qty.
13 CDs* 9780786189830 YES $104.00 $52.00
1 MP3CD 9780786188116 YES $24.95 NA
10 Tapes* 9780786125814 YES $69.95 $34.98
* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
Book ID(3167) - 15.4 hrs (est.), Published - 11/01/03
DESCRIPTION

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

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

The model for The Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played “with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.” David Piertrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series and unravels the mystery of A.R.’s November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room. Transporting listeners onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the race tracks, showgirls, political movers-and-shakers and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the godfather of organized crime in America, who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham.



REVIEWS

“Dazzling! Rothstein is nonstop fiery journalism, finely researched and colorfully written, read with truly impressive panache by the inimitable Grover Gardner. Gardner tears into the material with vigor and intelligence, a knowing insider's edge, and a smirk in each syllable....A must listen, must own audiobook.”—AudioFile

“No other narrator could lend as much substance to this gripping account as Gardner; his gruff, straightforward baritone voice has an in-your-face quality, perfect for the subject matter.”—Booklist

“Colorful biography....True crime, evil doings, and monumental double-crossing by the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, and the Machine in a savory account of the legendary bad old days.” —Kirkus Reviews



DAVID PIETRUSZA has written or edited over three dozen books. An expert on the 1920s, he works as a public information officer. He lives in upstate New York.



* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
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