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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography · 2019 · Winner
Little, Brownbiography-memoirnonfictionISBN 9780316512237

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Josh Levin traces the life of Linda Taylor — the woman Ronald Reagan called the 'welfare queen' — revealing a story far stranger and darker than the racist myth it spawned, involving murder, child kidnapping, and multiple identities. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

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