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TRUE CRIME MANDELBAUM
Title
The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / Margalit Fox.
Author
Fox, Margalit, author.
Barcode
529231
Collection
NF True Crime
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.
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TRUE CRIME MANDELBAUM
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Catalog Details
International Standard Book Number
9780593243855 : $32.00
International Standard Book Number
0593243854 : $32.00
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
364.109747092 B 23/eng/20231219
Personal Name
Fox, Margalit, author.
Title Statement
The talented Mrs. Mandelbaum : the rise and fall of an American organized-crime boss / Margalit Fox.
Edition Statement
First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice
New York : Random House, [2024]
Physical Description
xxiv, 301 p. illustrations ; Hardcover 25 cm
Content Type
text txt rdacontent
Media Type
unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc.
"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.
Subject-Personal Name
Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1825-1894.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
Criminals Biography. New York (State) New York
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
Thieves Biography. New York (State) New York
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
Organized crime History 19th century. New York (State) New York
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
Receiving stolen goods History 19th century. New York (State) New York
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