Word: schultze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they could be from innocent visions of Tom Sawyer or Horatio Alger. Even discounting a particularly bloody penultimate encounter, Billy Bathgate directly witnesses two murders and helps dispose of the body of a third victim. In each case, the perpetrator is the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz, ne Arthur Flegenheimer, Billy's self-described "mentor" and as romantically dangerous a father figure as any lad could desire. Billy is his real name, Bathgate an alias he has invented, lifted from a street, known for its open-air markets, a few blocks from his birthplace in the Bronx. Billy's education...
...Depression, the book introduces the reader to the New York mob of Dutch Schultz, who, along with his trusted--and not so trusted--minions, runs illegal businesses, evades taxes and dabbles in the pastime of murder...
Doctorow contrasts Dutch Schultz's struggle to save his career with the inevitable rise of the brave and quick Billy Bathgate...
...When Schultz is "tried" to avoid conviction for greater offenses, "My mother saved the front page of the Mirror with Mr. Schultz's smiling face and folded it so that just the picture showed, she laid it down in the carriage and brought a thread-bare blanket up to its chin...
Considering that the Steinberg story took precedence over the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the RJR-Nabisco corporate buyout, then-Secretary of State George Schultz's refusal to grant PLO leader Yasir Arafat a visa and the electoral victory of Benazir Bhutto '73 in Pakistan, can we believe that Newsweek had anything in mind except appealing to our "most primitive fascinations...