Show Notes: Release date – 11/6/2016. This episode is an oldy but a goody. The character of Arnold Rothstein captivated audiences in the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” for years, and perhaps that is why this episode has received so many listens since its original release….
My guest, David Pietrusza, is the author of “Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series”. He talks about this extraordinary, eccentric man who managed to expertly balance between high society, highbrow intellectual circles, Tammany Hall and the underworld, and had his fingers in just about every racket in Jazz-Age New York City.
