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

Gangsterland is a walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan, featuring notorious gangsters, crooked cops, politicians, master drug smugglers, murderous racketeers, show biz legends, and more. It exposes Tammany Hall, sports, Broadway, and Wall Street, and readers should check their wallets before leaving.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Diversion Books

JAZZ-AGE MANHATTAN is a captivating site-by-site, crime-by-crime, outlaw-by-outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan, where gamblers, gangsters, crooks, cops, showgirls, and speakeasies ruled the day and night. In "Gangsterland," historian David Pietrusza takes readers on a journey through the Big Apple's rotten core, where the Roaring Twenties' bright lights and showgirls mask a web of notorious gangsters ruling New York City. At the heart of this wickedness nests a Prince of Darkness, 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 Dapper Don Collins; crooked cop Lt. Charles Becker; politicians Mayor Gentleman Jimmy Walker and Big Tim Sullivan; master drug smugglers George Uffner and Sidney Stajer; murderous racketeers Lucky Luciano and Legs Diamon; 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. Readers get up close and personal with this rogues' gallery, but better check their wallets before they leave.

Weight: 356g
Dimension: 140 x 216 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781635769890