I have reading this great new book about a gangster from the turn of the century who dominated the Lower East Side one hundred years ago. Big Jack Zelig who controlled the Lower East Side rackets before Prohibition for a few years until he was murdered by the police. He was about to testify in the murder trail of the century. Well the early part of the century where a police lieutenant was sent to the electric chair. It is a great book and if you were following "Boardwalk Empire" it is in much the same time frame and sensibility. Just a little earlier.
It is about tough Jewish gangster who would go and ride buses and wait for nudnicks to pull on somebodies beard and then they would kick the shit out of them. It is a great read.
