Anthropology Museum Hosts a Conversation and Book Signing with Dan Slater, Author of The Incorruptibles
Author Dan Slater will visit campus on Tuesday, November 18, to talk about his critically
acclaimed book The Incorruptibles about organized crime, Jewish immigrants, and vigilantes in 1920s New York. His visit
will include a book signing, followed by a reception and a visit to the WCU Anthropology
Museum. Slater loaned some of his historical photos for the museum’s exhibition on
1920s America, “Roaring in Secret.”
Slater is bringing additional historical visuals to the free program, which begins at 3:30 p.m. in Philips Autograph Library in Philips Memorial Building (High Street at University Avenue).
The Incorruptibles recounts the story of Eastern European-Jewish mobsters such as Arnold Rothstein (who notoriously fixed the World Series) and the German-Jewish immigrants in New York who formed a vigilante group to stop them. They were worried not only about crime in their community, but of how these gangsters would bolster the anti-immigration lobby of the 1920s. Their efforts, however, led to unforeseen consequences in the form of a new mobster class who realized unprecedented opportunities to amass power.
Slater’s presentation is sponsored by the West Chester University Ethnic Studies Institute, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and the Anthropology Club. For more information, contact museum@wcupa.edu.
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