Le Roi Des Juifs

So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, Is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Mick Tosches's inimitable style.

Now in King of the Jews , Nick Tosches, "one of the greatest living writers in America" ( Dallas Observer ), examines Rothstein's extraordinary legacy by placing him at the center of nothing less than the history of the entire Western World.