Gangsterland (eBook)

A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City

David Pietrusza (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
474 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-878-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This history of New York City is a site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan. Independent Book Award Silver Medal (Co-Winner) for Regional Northeast NonfictionIndependent Press Award's Distinguished Favorite in the True Crime CategoryYC Big Book Award's Distinguished Favorite in the True Crime CategoryIn Gangsterland, historian David Pietrusza tours the Big Apple's rotten core. The Roaring Twenties blaze and sparkle with Times Square's bright lights and showgirls, but its dark shadows mask a web of notorious gangsters ruling New York City. At the heart of this wickedness nests a "e;Prince of Darkness,"e; Arnold Rothstein, the kingpin most noted for fixing baseball's infamous 1919 World Series, who also bankrolled high-stakes gambling dens, speakeasies, trigger-happy bootleggers, and even a record setting Broadway show. Sharing center stage are con artists Nicky Arnstein and "e;Dapper Don"e; Collins; crooked cop Lt. Charles Becker; politicians Mayor "e;Gentleman Jimmy"e; Walker and "e;Big Tim"e; Sullivan; master drug smugglers George Uffner and Sidney Stajer; murderous racketeers Lucky Luciano and Legs Diamond; show biz legends Flo Ziegfeld, Fanny Brice, and Texas Guinan; and many more. As Pietrusza prowls city boulevards and back alleys, exposing Tammany Hall, sports, Broadway, and Wall Street, jewels are fenced, bullets fly, and unmarked bills buy bribes and silence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2024
• Zusatzinfo: BW photos throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abe Attell • Arnold Rothstein • benny kauff • Big Tim Sullivan • Charles A. Stoneham • Charles Becker • Damon Runyon • “Dapper Don” Collins • Drug Trade • Fanny Brice • Florenz Ziegfeld • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Gambling • Gentleman Jimmy Walker • George Uffner • Great Gatsby: Jazz Age • jewel heist • Larry Fay • Legal Eagles • Lindy’s Restaurant • Lorber’s Restaurant • Manhattan in the 20s • Maurice Cantor • Mugsy Mcgraw • Nicky Arnstein • NYC gangsters • NYC gangster tour • Park Central Hotel • Richard Canfield • roaring 20s • Roaring 20s NYC • Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series comes • tammany hall • Times Square in the 20s • Wall Street • Wilson Mizner
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-878-0 / 1635768780
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-878-7 / 9781635768787