Slate Presents... The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

Linda Taylor was a con artist, a kidnapper, maybe even a murderer. She was also America’s original “welfare queen,” the villain Ronald Reagan needed to create a vision of a country being taken advantage of by its poorest citizens. In The Queen, Josh Levin reveals the never-before-told story of a woman whose singular life was forgotten in the rush to create a vicious American stereotype. Each season of Slate Presents brings you a new narrative mini-series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Slate Presents... The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth is an episode from Slate Presents: One Year by Slate Podcasts.

This episode is 7:25 long.

This episode was published on Jun 3, 2019.

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