The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss /
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 lif...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780593243855 0593243854 |