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Description:On October 23, 1935, a rusty, steel-jacketed .45 slug tore through the body of 33-year-old Dutch Schultz. It was no accident. Schultz, the Beer Baron of The Bronx who reaped $2 million a month as king of Harlem's numbers racket, had gone too far, having threatened to murder Thomas E. Dewey—the racket’s prosecutor who’d drawn up the tax indictment against him. The result was the biggest gangland execution since the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Al Capone's Chicago.Schultz didn’t die instantly, lingering over a day, a police stenographer at his bedside recording every word. Dutch’s surrealistic, Joycean stream-of-consciousness deathbed ramblings are reproduced in full and Sann explores the meaning of the poetic jumble of his last words: “I am a pretty good pretzeler [sic], Please crack down on the Chinaman’s friends and Hitler’s commander,” and his most majestic utterance, “Mother is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast.”In this 1930s real-life whodunit, legendary New York newspaperman Paul Sann investigates the meteoric rise of gangster Dutch Schultz, mean-streaked bully, alleged killer and reader of books, tracking the blood-flecked story from the Lower East Side and Bronx sidewalks to Broadway night spots to lavish Park Ave. penthouses and, ultimately, to City Hall—along the way uncovering the truces and alliances among politicians, judges, police, unions and racketeers.“A masterpiece! . . . [Sann] makes us understand how the big cities of America worked in the years between the wars.” –Pete Hamill, author of Snow in August, A Drinking Life and ForeverWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz. To get started finding Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: On October 23, 1935, a rusty, steel-jacketed .45 slug tore through the body of 33-year-old Dutch Schultz. It was no accident. Schultz, the Beer Baron of The Bronx who reaped $2 million a month as king of Harlem's numbers racket, had gone too far, having threatened to murder Thomas E. Dewey—the racket’s prosecutor who’d drawn up the tax indictment against him. The result was the biggest gangland execution since the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Al Capone's Chicago.Schultz didn’t die instantly, lingering over a day, a police stenographer at his bedside recording every word. Dutch’s surrealistic, Joycean stream-of-consciousness deathbed ramblings are reproduced in full and Sann explores the meaning of the poetic jumble of his last words: “I am a pretty good pretzeler [sic], Please crack down on the Chinaman’s friends and Hitler’s commander,” and his most majestic utterance, “Mother is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast.”In this 1930s real-life whodunit, legendary New York newspaperman Paul Sann investigates the meteoric rise of gangster Dutch Schultz, mean-streaked bully, alleged killer and reader of books, tracking the blood-flecked story from the Lower East Side and Bronx sidewalks to Broadway night spots to lavish Park Ave. penthouses and, ultimately, to City Hall—along the way uncovering the truces and alliances among politicians, judges, police, unions and racketeers.“A masterpiece! . . . [Sann] makes us understand how the big cities of America worked in the years between the wars.” –Pete Hamill, author of Snow in August, A Drinking Life and ForeverWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz. To get started finding Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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