{"product_id":"2940169914467","title":"Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe model for Meyer Wolfsheim from \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuys and Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNathan Detroit, 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.¿\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102337941744,"sku":"2940169914467","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169914467_p0.jpg?v=1769903023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169914467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}