02839cam a2200277 4500 1671424399 TxAuBib 20241023120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593243862 0593243862 0030914159 Axis360 TxAuBib Fox, Margalit. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum [Boundless]. Random House Digital, 2024. America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.“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 The SisterhoodIn 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, “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.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 business.The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum 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. Format: Blio. TRUE CRIME / Historical; TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-23 20:00:03. History fast United States 19th Century. TRUE CRIME Organized Crime. TRUE CRIME Historical. https://fpltx.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030914159 TXFLO