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Stories that are deeply reported, compulsively listenable—and curated by Slate. Season 3 | The Queen Linda Taylor committed abhorrent crimes. She became a legend for the least of them. Season 2 | Charged: A True Punishment Story Brooklyn's gun court promised safer streets—but for whom? Season 1 | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? How a deadly siege fueled the far-right movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. Coronation | The Queen

    第 1 集

    Coronation | The Queen

    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. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 分钟
  2. An Incredible Con | The Queen

    第 2 集

    An Incredible Con | The Queen

    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 book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every season of Slate Presents, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    4 分钟
  3. Constance | The Queen

    第 3 集

    Constance | The Queen

    A decade before she became known as the “welfare queen,” Linda Taylor put herself at the center of a different Chicago scandal. Upon the death of gambling kingpin Lawrence Wakefield, Taylor posed as the heir to his sizable fortune. The ensuing court proceeding was full of lies and surprise witnesses. That heirship hearing would ultimately reveal Taylor’s real identity and offer a window into her troubled past. This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    5 分钟
  4. Bobbie and Diana | The Queen

    第 4 集

    Bobbie and Diana | The Queen

    Linda Taylor had a tendency to emerge from out of nowhere, upend everything in her path, then vanish without leaving a forwarding address. The final episode of The Queen focuses on two different stories about the lives Taylor changed. In one case, she helped a vulnerable family escape the degradations of the Jim Crow South. In the other, she kidnapped a child and may have been responsible for her own husband’s death. This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    4 分钟
  5. The Kidnapping of Baby Fronczak | The Queen

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    The Kidnapping of Baby Fronczak | The Queen

    Is it possible that Linda Taylor perpetrated one of the most infamous child abductions in American history? In this excerpt from the first bonus episode of The Queen, Josh Levin talks to Paul Joseph Fronczak about how Taylor could be connected to the April 1964 kidnapping of a 1-day-old boy born to Paul’s parents, Dora and Chester Fronczak. They also discuss Paul’s search for his true identity. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 分钟
  6. How to Write This Book | The Queen

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    How to Write This Book | The Queen

    In this excerpt from the second bonus episode of The Queen, Dan Kois talks to Josh Levin about the process of writing the reporting-intensive book the podcast series is based on. They’re joined by a panel of three distinguished authors, who share their own lessons about what it takes to write a book-length investigation: David Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of Killers of the Flower Moon; James Forman Jr., winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America; and Eliza Griswold, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for her book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Join Slate Plus to unlock the every Slate Presents season, including The Queen—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from our show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or visit slate.com/thequeenplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 分钟
  7. An Audiobook Preview | The Queen

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    An Audiobook Preview | The Queen

    Listen to the first chapter of the audiobook version of The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Narrated by January LaVoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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    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.

    7 分钟
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Stories that are deeply reported, compulsively listenable—and curated by Slate. Season 3 | The Queen Linda Taylor committed abhorrent crimes. She became a legend for the least of them. Season 2 | Charged: A True Punishment Story Brooklyn's gun court promised safer streets—but for whom? Season 1 | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? How a deadly siege fueled the far-right movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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