03595cam a2200433 i 4500 1459330667 TxAuBib 20250312120000.0 231207s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023951854 9780316427715 HRD 32.50 0316427713 HRD 32.50 (OCoLC)1445888115 TxAuBib rda Slater, Dan. The incorruptibles [BOOK] : a true story of kingpins, crime busters, and the birth of the American underworld / Dan Slater. True story of kingpins, crime busters, and the birth of the American underworld. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. ©2024. xi, 419 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-408) and index. Prologue -- Part one: Nobility in dollar land. Between worlds -- The crusading path -- Making your mark -- Tony the tough -- Night of ruin -- The girl who earns her own living -- Vengeance -- The killing of a Jewish gambler -- Part two: Mister Prettyfield. Waking up -- To the wall -- Pal Zel -- Bridging the wires -- Everyman's friend -- Misfits -- Part three: The incorruptibles. Whacked unmercifully -- Year of the red-light drama -- Il Nostro get -- Your city -- Scarlet room -- Don't tell lies for me -- The toughest money in the world -- Tailor's progress -- Part four: Inevitable chain. Subversive might -- A tool like you -- It's a racket -- Don't write good things about me -- Epilogue -- Glossary of the east side underworld. "In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, 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. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. 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. The squad, known as the Incorruptibles, took the fight to the heart of crime in the city, waging war on the sin they saw as threatening the future of their community. Their efforts, however, led to unforeseen consequences in the form of a new mobster class who realized, in the country’s burgeoning reform efforts, unprecedented opportunities to amass power.". 20250312. Immigrants New York (State) New York History 20th century. Crime New York (State) New York History 20th century. Organized crime New York (State) New York History 20th century. Organized crime United States History 20th century. Jews New York (State) New York History 20th century. True crime stories. New York (N.Y) History 1898-1951.