The Queen: Book Guide, Author and Facts

"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 s

Quick facts about The Queen

• Title: The Queen
• Author: Josh Levin
• First published: 2019
• Genre: swindlers and swindling, welfare fraud, united states, history, 1969-
• OpenLibrary ID: OL19912804W

Where to read The Queen

The Queen by Josh Levin is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.

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