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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss Youngmi Mayer But paradise is messier thanBy: Margalit Fox Published by Random House Publishing Group, 2024 07 02 Americas first great organized crime lord was a ladya nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. A tour de force . . . With a pickpockets finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1850, an impoverished twenty five year old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in