Legends of the Manhattan Roaring Twenties: The Hero, The Fixer, The Duke of the West Side, and The One Man Riot Squad

key words--Prohibition, racketeering, political corruption, law enforcement My tenth book is a nonfiction portrait set in Manhattan and constructed around four powerful and secretive men in the worlds of politics, the police, and the rackets. The four were often called The Hero, The Fixer, The Duke of the Westside, and The One Man Riot Squad . During "the gaudy era," the majority of these four men were profiled in the New Yorker . But my deeply researched book, leaning heavily on primary material, now discloses the interrelationships and interdependencies so that their impact on the life of Prohibition Era Manhattan is exposed for the first time. By 1923 they all began to stay quietly in contact with each other for many decades. In their prime they were on friendly terms with Mae West, George Raft, Lucky Luciano, Charles Lindbergh, Duke Ellington, Arnold Rothstein, and championship boxers. They interacted with the newspapermen Mark Hellinger, Walter Winchell, and Damon Runyon. All of these acquaintances kept the Four protected and well-paid. My book touches on kidnapping, bootlegging, shootouts, the corruption of the city by Tammany Hall, glamorous speakeasies, and prison breaks. As such, the topics covered include matters legal, social, jurisprudential, criminal, political and more. The four men of my book helped the murderer of Arnold Rothstein to escape, produced Broadway shows, hunted Legs Diamond, owned The Cotton Club, and during the 1932 convention swayed the presidential nomination of Franklin Roosevelt. This book's named seventy chapters shows all of them working quietly in concert.