Jewish immigrants, like earlier ones, were both law-abiding and criminal in the crowded world of the lower east side of New York City.

Max Eastman

Crystal Eastman, founder of ACLU

Leon Czolgosz and the assassination of President McKinley

John Reed

Henrietta Szold

Leo Frank

Lefty Rosenberg

Dago Frank Cirofici

Lt. Charles Becker

The Five Points Gang

Dovid will be sent to the mean streets of the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century and be reborn as Davey Boy, a protégé of the Eastman Gang, which preceded the likes of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. He will be there not only for the birth of American organized crime, but the unholy alliance that is made between the Mob, Hollywood, Las Vegas and the top echelons of American politics. In the golden age of the Syndicate, every President, from Roosevelt through Reagan, has the way to the White House paved by the Mob. The only exception is Dwight D. Eisenhower, because he spent his whole life in the Army and they had no way in to him. It is the story of bootleggers turned Wall Street and Hollywood tycoons and the fathers of presidential dynasties. During that golden age, whether they knew it or not, almost everything every American did included a tax to the Mob. When someone put a nickel in a jukebox, they were paying a tax to the Mob. When they bought a pack of cigarettes from a vending machine, or a ladies’ undergarment, or a piece of fish that came in through the Fulton Fish Market, or anything that moved by truck… The movies they watched… The songs they listened to… The politicians they believed in and voted for… Each and every one of them had a direct connection to the Mob. And Davey Boy Levy will be there for it all. And not all the bad guys are as bad as they were made out to be, nor all the good guys as noble as they professed.