David Pietrusza’s books include 1920: The Year of Six Pres­i­dents; Roth­stein: The Life, Times, and Mur­der of the Crim­i­nal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series; 1948: Har­ry Truman’s Improb­a­ble Vic­to­ry and the Year that Trans­formed America’s Role in the World; and 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Cam­paign that Forged Three Pres­i­den­cies. Roth­stein was a final­ist for an Edgar Award, and 1920 was hon­ored as by Kirkus as among their ​“Books of the Year.”