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,...
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,...
Slate editor Josh Levin's masterful account of the life and crimes of America's original welfare queen 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...