King Of The Jews The Greatest Mob Story Never Told Nick Tosches by Nick Tosches 9780066211183, 0066211182 instant download after payment.

A sprawling portrait of the notorious gambler and New York City businessman Arnold Rothstein examines the numerous myths that surrounded his life, from his alleged links to the "Black Sox" scandal and the fixing of the 1919 World Series, to his inspiration of literary and stage characters.
So begins Nick Tosches 's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein,
which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but
an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's
inimitable style.
Known by many names -- A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer,
The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain -- Rothstein seemed more
myth than man. He was gambling, and he was money. The inspiration for
Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls
, he was rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the
fixing of the 1919 World Series. He was Mr. Broadway and had his own
booth at Lindy's Restaurant in Manhattan, where he held court.
Now,
in King of the Jews , Nick Tosches, "one of the greatest living American
writers" ( Dallas Observer ), examines Rothstein's extraordinary legacy
by placing him at the center of nothing less than the history of the
entire Western world.