Dutch Schultz: The Brazen Beer Baron of New York (Amazing Stories) - Softcover

Hendley, Nate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552651045 ISBN 13: 9781552651049

Publisher: Altitude Pub Canada Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Even by Mob standards, Dutch Schultz was a vicious gangster. Known for his quick temper and violent impulses, Schultz rose through the ranks of the underworld to become one of the most powerful bootleggers and racketeers in the United States. A notoriously cheap and fiercely independent criminal, he refused to live by anyone's rules but his own.

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About the Author:

Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based freelance writer/reporter. Born in 1966, Hendley has been working as a journalist since the early 1990s. His publishing credits include The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Marketing magazine, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Journal, PROFIT magazine's e-newsletters, etc. Hendley is also a published author, with eight books in print. Six of these titles (on bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd, the notorious Black Donnelly family, American gangsters Dutch Schultz and Al Capone, John Lennon and the drug, methamphetamine) were released by Altitude Publishing, of Alberta. Hendley has penned two other tomes, on Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and William Lyon Mackenzie King, for a line of childrens' books published by Jackfruit Press of Toronto, Canada. Hendley specializes in writing on crime, politics, history, music and substance abuse.

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October 24, 1935 The Dutchman was dying. The bullet in his gut had caused massive internal injuries and sent his temperature soaring. Staring fixedly at the ceiling from his hospital bed, Arthur Flegenheimer - aka Dutch Schultz - cried and babbled. In his delirium, he began weaving a weird tapestry of unconnected phrases, names, and oaths. A police stenographer sat by the gangster's side, taking down every word. The authorities hoped Schultz might reveal Mob secrets in his final monologue. But Dutch proved as elusive in his dying hours as he had been in life. "No, no. There are only 10 of us and there are 10 million fighting somewhere in front of you, so get your onions up and we will throw up the truce flag," he raved. "Oh, please let me up. Please shift me. Police are here. Communistic ... strike ... baloney ... honestly, this is a habit I get; sometimes I give it and sometimes I don't. Oh, I am all in. That settles it. Are you sure? Please let me get in and eat. Let him harass himself to you and then bother you." None of it made any sense to the police. They kept listening, however, as Schultz rambled on, his mind journeying back and forth over the course of his brief, but spectacular, criminal life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Altitude Pub Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1552651045
• ISBN 13: 9781552651049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 139