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He built one of the most profitable criminal empires in American history, survived the bootleg wars that killed everyone around him, and proposed to murder the Special Prosecutor of New York State - then died in a Newark hospital room talking to a police stenographer for twenty hours while the national crime syndicate waited for him to stop. Arthur Flegenheimer, who the world knew as Dutch Schultz, was thirty-three years old. From the tenements of the South Bronx to the illegal breweries of Prohibition, from the takeover of the Harlem numbers racket - by violence, by mathematical fraud, and by the specific genius of a man named Abbadabba Berman - to three federal tax trials that should have ended him and didn't, Schultz was the most combustible figure in the organized crime world of the 1930s. He earned fortunes. He made enemies. He refused every rule the national syndicate tried to impose on him. When he told the Commission he intended to kill Thomas Dewey regardless of their objection, they gave the order that killed him instead. The gunmen went to a Coney Island restaurant. Schultz ended up in a hospital bed, and what he said in those final hours - recorded word for word by a Newark detective - remains one of the strangest documents in American criminal history. Empire of Beer and Blood is the definitive narrative account of Dutch Schultz's rise, reign, and spectacular fall - ferocious, meticulously sourced, and alive to every dimension of a life that burned at full intensity until it didn't.

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