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The life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 world series.

The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and 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."

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Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

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