The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / Margalit Fox.
"In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence"-a receiver of stolen goods and a successful criminal mastermind. By the mid-1880s as much as Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593243855
- ISBN: 0593243854
- Physical Description: xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2024].
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: a glittering hoard -- Ascent. "The mere privilege of breath" ; No questions asked ; Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Hubris. Home improvements ; Ocean's four ; Bureau for the prevention of conviction ; Where the money was -- Nemesis. Thieves fall out ; The thief-taker general of the United States of America ; The maypole and the egg ; A strip of silk ; North by northwest -- Epilogue: Kaddish. |
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| Boone Trail Branch | 364.109 Fox (Text) | 33630005403071 | Adult Nonfiction | In process | - |
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