David Pietrusza is an award winning historian and author of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, and the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim.
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza has been called "a national treasure" and "the undisputed champion of chronicling American Presidential campaigns." His books include studies of the 1920, 1932, 1936, 1948, and 1960 presidential elections and biographies of Theodore Roosevelt (Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal, US History), gambler Arnold Rothstein (Edgar Award finalist) and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Casey Award winner).
Pietrusza has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Voice of America, The History Channel, AMC, and ESPN. He has spoken at the JFK, FDR, Truman, and Coolidge presidential libraries, Grant and TR presidential sites, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and various universities, museums, libraries, and festivals.
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