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All his life, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish reviews about his great-uncle Freeman were exaggerated family lore; some cockamamie Jewish revenge fantasies dreamt up to captivate the kids and venerate their larger-than-life relative. Only once he started researching Freeman Bernstein's life performed he realize that his family was actually retaining back. A cross between The Night They Raided Minsky's and Folks and Dolls, Freeman Bernstein's life was itself a vintage NY sideshow extravaganza, the one which Shapiro expertly levels in Hustling Hitler. From a ragtag youth in Troy, NY, Shapiro practices his great-uncle's ever-crooked trajectory through show business, from his early strategies on the burlesque circuit to marrying his star performer, May Ward, and producing silent motion pictures released only in Philadelphia. Certainly, most of Freeman's disadvantages and strategies were just a prelude to Feb 18, 1937, the day he was caught by the LAPD beyond Mae West's apartment in Hollywood. The demand? Grand larceny-for cheating Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government.
