Join us for The Incorruptible: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld with author Dan Slater. It’s about the Jewish immigrant underworld of New York’s Lower East Side, and the efforts by a small group of reformers to eradicate it.

Published to wide acclaim last summer, The New York Times called The Incorruptibles “unrivaled” and chose it as an editor’s pick. The New York Post wrote that it’s “required reading.” The Wall Street Journal described it as “a deeply reported and fluidly written corrective to what life was like on those mean streets.”

Those attending the program will learn how organized crime depended on corrupt police, judges, and politicians. Dan Slater also will explain the connection between the vices plaguing the Lower East Side, the spread of antisemitism in the country, and the backlash against Jewish immigration.

A graduate of Colgate University, New York Film Academy, and Brooklyn Law School, Dan Slater was a former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal and also has written for more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, GQ, and The New Yorker online. One of his earlier books, Wolf Boys was named by the Chicago Public Library as the best book of the year in 2016 and is being adapted for a TV series.

Copies of The Incorruptibles will be available for purchase at our program at a discounted price ($25) and can be signed by Dan.