An Incredible Con The Queen

In the 1970s, a pair of very different men fought to define Linda Taylor’s image. For presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, Taylor epitomized the brokenness of the federal bureaucracy and the broader trend of poor people getting rich off the public dime. Taylor’s defense lawyer, the civil rights attorney R. Eugene Pincham, believed she was a scapegoat, and that her actions were crimes of survival. This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth . Join Slate Plus to unlock the every season of Slate Presents, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts.

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An Incredible Con The Queen is an episode from Slate Presents: One Year by Slate Podcasts.

This episode is 3:51 long.

This episode was published on Jun 5, 2019.

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