Who knew that America’s first great organized-crime lord was a nice Jewish mother? Join author Margalit Fox as she upends expectations while presenting Gilded Age New York, with its nefarious rogues, capitalist power brokers, and Tammany Hall bigwigs, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and “legitimate” commerce in this unforgettable true story, selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice.

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