This E.L. Doctorow title character joins Dutch Schultz's gang as a 15-year-old in 1930s New York City
The title character himself is too engaging to be forgotten, too understandable,
... [DOC] [TLE] An American Boy in Gangland - The New York Times [PAR] Feb 26, 1989 ... or nearly 30 years now, E. L. Doctorow has been serving as a sort of ... of work: a 
richly detailed report of a 15-year-old boy's journey from childhood to ...