1920s Manhattan and the Wise Guys Who Ran It
‘Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of the Jazz-Age New York City’ is an entertaining, authoritative, and encyclopedic guide to the city’s colorful decade of crookedness.
‘Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of the Jazz-Age New York City’
By David Pietrusza
Diversion Books, 310 pages
David Pietrusza makes Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928) the presiding criminal genius of this entertaining, authoritative, and encyclopedic guide to the city’s colorful decade of crookedness.
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