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Zusatztext For decades! Linda Taylor has been demagogued by politicians and the press! reduced to a cruel stereotype: the welfare queen shamelessly leeching from government coffers. Through meticulous reporting ! Josh Levin's The Queen illuminates in full the story of a life far more complicated! cunning! criminal! tragic and fascinating than the historical stereotype would have ever allowed us to see Informationen zum Autor Josh Levin is the editorial director of Slate and the host of the sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. He previously worked at the Washington City Paper and has written for Sports Illustrated , the Atlantic , GQ , and Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine . He was born and raised in New Orleans and is a graduate of Brown University. He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, a woman called Linda Taylor reported a fake burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewellery. The police soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect illegally claimed government cheques. And that was just the beginning: 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 presidential candidate Ronald Reagan - seemed to care about anything but her welfare thievery. Part social history, part true-crime investigation, Josh Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the "welfare queen" myth, one that fuelled political debates that reverberate to this day. The Queen tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of what was done to Linda Taylor, what she did to others, and what was done in her name. Vorwort THE QUEEN: T he never-before-told story of a beguilingly complex American character, lost in the rush to create a vicious stereotype. For fans of incredible investigative writing in the vein of David Grann and John Carreyrou Zusammenfassung THE QUEEN: The never-before-told story of a beguilingly complex American character, lost in the rush to create a vicious stereotype. For fans of incredible investigative writing in the vein of David Grann and John Carreyrou...
