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The Queen | Ep. 02: An Incredible Con

Slate Presents: One Year

English - June 05, 2019 09:00 - 25 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
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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 new book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
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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 new book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices