A portrait of social life in the United States during the 1920s includes discussions of the movies, crime, politics, and sports

The 20's (Da Capo Paperback)

History

Sann, Paul

Americas

Da Capo Press

The true story of the gangland execution in 1935 of Dutch Schultz, the Beer Baron of the Bronx and king of Harlem's numbers racket. The author shows how the roots of the crime ran from the Lower East side to Park Avenue penthouses and ultimately to City Hall itself.

Kill The Dutchman! (Da Capo Paperback)

Discover what made the Twenties roar with this sensational retrospective. Ranging from the end of the First World War to the New Deal, it portrays the lawless era in which old traditions were discarded and the nation went on a binge that changed American life forever. This colorful and informative year-by-year jaunt through the 1920s covers politics, crime, arts, sports, society, and culture. Hundreds of photographs depict the era's most noteworthy events and personalities, including gangsters, flappers, and movie stars. Written by a former executive editor of the New York Post, this pictorial history offers candid, entertaining appraisals that recapture the riotous spirit of the decade. Fascinating vignettes chronicle the rise of speakeasies and bootleggers, the proliferation of dance crazes, high-speed automobiles, and Ponzi schemes, and dramatic incidents such as Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Scopes Monkey Trial. A century later, readers will find a familiar resonance in these chronicles of a scandal-ridden and celebrity-obsessed culture.

The Lawless Decade: Bullets, Broads and Bathtub Gin

Dover Publications

Paul Sann tells the story of teh colorful, turbulent, sensation packed years between the 1st world war and the New Deal.

The Lawless Decade: A Pictorical History of a Great American Transition: From the World War I Armistice and Prohibition to Repeal and the New Deal

Military

Crown, Publishers

Stated first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Slight spine lean and dust spotting to the edges of the upper page block. Former owner's name is inked at the lower edge of the front fly. Minor dust soiling to the covers. The dust jacket has price sticker remains at the upper right corner of the front panel. Rubs to the spine tips and corners. Creasing to the inside front flap.

Dead Heat:Love and Money

Dial Press, 1974

Pictures and text look at the activities that have preoccupied Americans

American Panorama

Rizzoli

The true story of the gangland execution in 1935 of "Dutch" Schultz, the Beer Baron of the Bronx and king of Harlem's numbers racket. The author shows how the roots of the crime ran from the Lower East side to Park Avenue penthouses and ultimately to City Hall itself.

Kill the Dutchman!: The story of Dutch Schultz

Europe

Arlington House

On Oct. 23, 1935, a rusty, steel-jacketed .45 slug tore through the body Dutch Schultz. It was no accident. Schultz, 33, the Beer Baron of The Bronx who reaped $2 million a month as king of Harlem's numbers racket, had gone too far, threatening 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, though, lingering over a day, a police stenographer bedside recording his every word. Dutch’s surrealistic, Joycean stream-of-consciousness 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 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 Forever 
“One of the essential reads on the larger subject of the Prohibition era and its criminal legacy. . . . Sann [brings] humanity and profound literary skills to bear on a difficult subject, elevating the art of crime writing to new levels. Now, a new generation of readers can benefit from Paul Sann’s labors, and also, perhaps, be enthralled by the timeless quality of something that will always have value, no matter the technology: a great story rendered with elegance and authenticity by a master of the craft.” –T.J. English, author of The Westies, Havana Nocturne and The Savage City 
“Godfather readers will go for it.” –United Press International

Kill The Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz

Biographies & Memoirs

Sann, Howard

True Crime

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