04239cam a2200661 4500 2533156064 TxAuBib 20250828120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593243862 0593243862 B0CK8883RF Amazon 3b903da4-f38a-4156-bdc2-c7489995c8a9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10194691 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fox, Margalit. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum [Libby eBook] : The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss. Random House Publishing Group, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. true crime books nonfiction. gifts for true crime lovers. book club recommendations. gifts for true crime fans. gifts for history lovers. gifts for history buffs. American history books. crime books for adults. United States History. gilded age new york. american history. new york history. true crime books. true crime gifts. Organized Crime. biography books. new york city. history books. history gifts. Margalit Fox. biographies. crime books. us history. True Crime. true story. Biography. Business. History. crime. women. HTML:<b>America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.<br /> “A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of <i>The Sisterhood</i><br /></b><br /> <b>A <i>PARADE</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br /> In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth?<br /> In the intervening years, “Marm” Mandelbaum had become the country’s most notorious “fence”—a receiver of stolen goods—and a criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as $10 million worth of purloined luxury goods (nearly $300 million today) had passed through her Lower East Side shop. Called “the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime,” she planned robberies of cash, gold and diamonds throughout the country.<br /> But Mrs. Mandelbaum wasn’t just a successful crook: She was a business visionary—one of the first entrepreneurs in America to systemize the scattershot enterprise of property crime. Handpicking a cadre of the finest bank robbers, housebreakers and shoplifters, she handled logistics and organized supply chains—turning theft into a viable, scalable <i>business</i>.<br /> <i>The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum</i> paints a vivid portrait of Gilded Age New York—a city teeming with nefarious rogues, capitalist power brokers and Tammany Hall bigwigs, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and “legitimate” commerce. Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-08-27 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3b903da4-f38a-4156-bdc2-c7489995c8a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3b903da4-f38a-4156-bdc2-c7489995c8a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)