THE BIG BANKROLL (369 pp.)—Leo Katcher—Harper ($5). Gangster Arnold Rothstein’s life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks. At the age of three, the future ...

An Burnley pastor, who transformed his life after becoming a gangster and drug addict, has published a second book.

Delaney is named in the book and told us about his thoughts on its publishing. “The notoriety of these people should not be looked at favorably. They should be looked at as a scourge on society ...

Once upon a time Broadway was just another street. In Gangsters & Gold Diggers, Jerome Charyn transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life—the Roaring Twenties—when ...