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The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth Cover Image Book Book

The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth

Levin, Josh 1980- (author.).

Summary: "In the fall of 1974, the Chicago Tribune found a woman its readers were sure to hate. Linda Taylor had reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a scammer, a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. But nobody--not the journalists who touted her story, not the police, and not Ronald Reagan, who railed against Taylor during the 1976 presidential campaign--seemed to care about anything but her welfare thievery. Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is an empathetic work of true crime, an account of how Taylor destroyed both strangers and those close to her ... Growing up in the Jim Crow South, Taylor was made an outcast because of the color of her skin. As she rose to infamy, the press and politicians manipulated her image to demonize poor black women. This is the dazzling story of what was done to Linda Taylor, what she did to others, and what was done in her name."--Jacket.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780316513302
  • ISBN: 031651330X
  • ISBN: 9780316513289
  • ISBN: 0316513288
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: A new victim -- Covert -- Page one -- Obtained by deception -- Friend -- A woman in Chicago -- Concerned neighbors -- The fashionably dressed Mrs. Taylor -- She couldn't stop -- She knows about the money -- Everything is fictitious -- Bottom rats -- The two Mrs. Harbaughs -- I'll sue the hell out of them -- A helpless child -- Clever, conniving, callous -- Beneficiary -- Deficits of memory.

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Swindlers and swindling United States Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Cultural, Ethnic & Regional African American & Black
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women
Taylor, Linda 1926-2002
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Genre: Biographies.
Nonfiction.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Case studies.
True crime stories.
Legal stories.
True crime stories.

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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 364.163 LEVIN ( Send Text)
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Coastal Plain Regional Library System:
      Tifton-Tift County Public Library 		364.163092 LEVIN, JOSH ( Send Text)
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      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library 		364.163 LEV ( Send Text)
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      Camilla-DeSoto Trail Regional Library 		364.163 LEVIN ( Send Text)
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      Fayette County Public Library 		364.163 LEVIN ( Send Text)
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      Peachtree City Library 		364.163 LEVIN ( Send Text)
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      Columbia County Library 		B Taylor ( Send Text)
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