Program Type:
Book DiscussionAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
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This month, we'll discuss Dan Slater's The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld.
In the early 1900s, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands. Worried about the anti-immigration lobby and the uncertain future of Jewish Americans, the uptowners marshalled a strictly off-the-books vice squad led by an ambitious young reformer. Dan Slater tells an epic and often brutal saga of crime and redemption, exhuming a buried history that shaped our modern world.
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