The Queen | Ep. 01: Coronation
Slate Presents: One Year
English - June 04, 2019 09:00 - 23 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsHistory News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Linda Taylor became the “welfare queen” in 1974 when the Chicago Tribune publicized her outrageous exploits. The reporter who introduced her to the world was a Pulitzer Prize winner named George Bliss. He stumbled into the Taylor story while investigating waste and fraud in the public aid system, and his fixation on a single welfare recipient may have been more damaging than he ever realized.
This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s new book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
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Linda Taylor became the “welfare queen” in 1974 when the Chicago Tribune publicized her outrageous exploits. The reporter who introduced her to the world was a Pulitzer Prize winner named George Bliss. He stumbled into the Taylor story while investigating waste and fraud in the public aid system, and his fixation on a single welfare recipient may have been more damaging than he ever realized.
This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s new book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices