Overview
āA tour de force . . . With a pickpocketās finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.āāLiza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
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?
In the intervening years, āMarmā Mandelbaum had become the countryās most notorious āfenceāāa receiver of stolen goodsāand 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 āthe nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime,ā she planned robberies of cash, gold and diamonds throughout the country.
But Mrs. Mandelbaum wasnāt just a successful crook: She was a business visionaryāone 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 chainsāturning theft into a viable, scalable business.
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum paints a vivid portrait of Gilded Age New Yorkāa city teeming with nefarious rogues, capitalist power brokers and Tammany Hall bigwigs, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and ālegitimateā 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 Americaās cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
This book title, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum (The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss), ISBN: 9780593243855, by Margalit Fox, published by Random House Publishing Group (July 2, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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