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

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. “A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The SisterhoodA PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Frede...