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

by Margalit Fox

In 1850, an impoverished 25-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York and worked as a peddler in the Lower East Side. By the 1870’s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? Find out in this fascinating non-fiction portrait of the Gilded Age of New York City.

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