The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

Margalit Fox

336 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced
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 In 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 wa...

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