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The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss  Cover Image Book Book

The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / Margalit Fox.

Fox, Margalit, (author.).

Summary:

"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 $10 million worth of purloined property (the equivalent of nearly $300 million in today's money) had passed through her little haberdashery shop. She planned, financed, and profited from robberies of cash, gold, and diamonds throughout New York and beyond. But she wasn't just a successful crook, she was a visionary. Called "the nucleus and center of the whole organization of crime in New York City" by the New York Times, Mandelbaum was the first person in American history to systemize formerly scattershot property crime enterprises. Handpicking a cadre of New York's foremost bank robbers, housebreakers, and shoplifters and bribing a corresponding group of the city's police and politicians, she handled logistics and organized supply chains -- turning theft into a proper, scaled business"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: A glittering hoard
Book One: Ascent. 'The mere privilege of breath'
No questions asked
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Book Two: Hubris. Home improvements
Ocean's four
Bureau for the prevention of conviction
Where the money was
Part Three: 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
Acknowledgments
A note on sources
References
Notes
Illustration credits
Index.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780593243855
  • ISBN: 0593243854
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2024]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: A glittering hoard
Book One: Ascent. 'The mere privilege of breath'
No questions asked
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Book Two: Hubris. Home improvements
Ocean's four
Bureau for the prevention of conviction
Where the money was
Part Three: 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
Acknowledgments
A note on sources
References
Notes
Illustration credits
Index.
Subject: Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1825-1894.
Thieves > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Criminals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Receiving stolen goods > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jews, German > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Jewish criminals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Voleurs > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Recel d'objets volés > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Crime organisé > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Juives > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Juifs allemands > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Criminels juifs > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Thieves > Biography.
Criminals > New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Organized crime > New York (State)
Genre: Biography.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Récits criminels.

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