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The Queen audiobook

  • By: Josh Levin
  • Narrator: January LaVoy
  • Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: May 21, 2019
  • Language: English
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The Queen Audiobook Summary

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).

On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. And that was just the beginning: Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. A desperately ill teacher, a combat-traumatized Marine, an elderly woman hungry for companionship — after Taylor came into their lives, all three ended up dead under suspicious circumstances. 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.

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. 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 expose of the “welfare queen” myth, one that fueled 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. “In the finest tradition of investigative reporting, Josh Levin exposes how a story that once shaped the nation’s conscience was clouded by racism and lies. As he stunningly reveals in this “invaluable work of nonfiction,” the deeper truth, the messy truth, tells us something much larger about who we are (David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).

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The Queen Audiobook Narrator

January LaVoy is the narrator of The Queen audiobook that was written by Josh Levin

About the Author(s) of The Queen

Josh Levin is the author of The Queen

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The Queen Full Details

Narrator January LaVoy
Length 12 hours 44 minutes
Author Josh Levin
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date May 21, 2019
ISBN 9781478995135

Subjects

The publisher of the The Queen is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is True Crime, Hoaxes & Deceptions

Additional info

The publisher of the The Queen is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Little, Brown & Company. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781478995135.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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