All his life, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish stories about his great-uncle Freeman were exaggerated family lore; some cockamamie Jewish revenge fantasies dreamt up to entertain the kids and venerate their larger-than-life relative. Only when he started researching Freeman Bernsteińs life did he realize that his family was actually holding bacḱthe man had enough stories, vocations, and IOUs to fill a dozen lifetimes. Freeman was many people: a vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler, card shark and self-proclaimed ́Jade King of China.́ But his greatest title, perhaps the only man who can claim such infamy, was as The Man Who Hustled Hitler.
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