{"id":61175,"date":"2023-10-31T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=61175"},"modified":"2024-04-30T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:59:33","slug":"george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"fff51c61aa9edc431da29d9a77aaa7d1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR138b877ce8dc781736a11d94793b03fd\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR138b877ce8dc781736a11d94793b03fd\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR138b877ce8dc781736a11d94793b03fd\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61175?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR138b877ce8dc781736a11d94793b03fd&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61175?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR138b877ce8dc781736a11d94793b03fd\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 21, 2024<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The UMW Dining Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2024: George Remus\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/926337583?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-book-191x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-book-191x300.png 191w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-book.png 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><p>In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quit practicing law and started trafficking whiskey. Within two years he owned 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States and was known as the \"King of the Bootleggers\u201d\u2014and even served as an inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Jay Gatsby. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt was determined to bring him down. Willebrandt's bosses at the Department of Justice office hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintained with Remus. Eager to prove them wrong, she began a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the bootlegger. Their bitter feud reached the highest levels of government\u2014and ended in murder. Drawing on her book,<i>The Ghosts of Eden Park<\/i>, Abbott Kahler (named a \u201cmaster of the art of narrative nonfiction\u201d by <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i>) will explore the unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction story of a rags-to-riches entrepreneur and a long-forgotten heroine, of the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, of America\u2019s fascination with celebrity, and of the infinite human capacity to deceive. Fans of the HBO show Boardwalk Empire will recognize many of the characters in <i>The Ghosts of Eden Park<\/i>, and appreciate that George Remus\u2014often forgotten in the annals of Prohibition-era gangsters\u2014has finally gotten his due.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Abbott Kahler<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-e1704827343259-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-e1704827343259-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-e1704827343259-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/abbott-e1704827343259-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Abbott Kahler (previously writing as Karen Abbott) is the author of four <i>New York Times<\/i> bestselling works of narrative nonfiction: <i>Sin in the Second City; American Rose<\/i>; <i>Liar Temptress Soldier Spy<\/i>; and, most recently, <i>The Ghosts of Eden Park<\/i>, which was an Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime. Her next nonfiction book, <i>Then Came the Devil<\/i>, is about a disparate (and scheming) group of settlers on the Galapagos islands in the 1930s. Her debut novel, <i>Where You End<\/i>, is inspired by a true story of identical twins and a strange case of amnesia, and will be published on January 16. Abbott\u2019s has written for newyorker.com, <i>New York Magazine<\/i>, the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>, the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, and <i>Smithsonian Magazine<\/i>. She is the host of an iHeartRadio podcast, <i>REMUS: THE MAD BOOTLEG KING<\/i>, about bootlegger George Remus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1247],"class_list":{"0":"post-61175","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1247","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T12:59:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby\\\/\",\"name\":\"George Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby - 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