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The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth

Title
The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth / Josh Levin.
Author
Levin, Josh, 1980-
Publication
  • New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xi, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • True crime stories.
  • Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 20-6217
ISBN
  • 9780316513302
  • 031651330X
  • 9780316513289
  • 0316513288
LCCN
2019934174
OCLC
1051136817
Author
Levin, Josh, 1980- author.
Title
The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth / Josh Levin.
Publisher
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index.
Local Note
INCLUDES COLOR AND B&W ILLUSTRATIONS.
Research Call Number
JFE 20-6217
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