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Dan Slater
The Incorruptibles
A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

Meet the “Guys and Dolls” of the Jewish Gilded Age—the gamblers, con men, gangsters and molls of the teeming Lower East Side—and the uptown, mostly German-Jewish philanthropists who tried to reform them before antisemitic officials could blame the entire Jewish community for their crimes. The Incorruptibles resurrects figures as varied as the politically savvy gambler Arnold Rothstein, the powerful reformer Rabbi Judah Magnes, and anti-crime crusader Abe Schoenfeld. Dan Slater imbues these characters and many more with vigor and wry humor in a book that The New York Times has called “unrivaled.”

Dan Slater is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and more.