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S'està carregant… Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion (edició 2021)de Tori Telfer (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. An interesting book on women grifters, swindlers , etc. Goes all the way back to 1700's. The author has a very unique writing style that I like. ( ) I liked the cover of the book right away, and thought the title matched the subject matter nicely. This is a collection of con women over time. I was pleased to find out while I knew about several events and women, I learned plenty more. I was surprised at the lack of consequences for so many actions of the women, and that getting out of situations was so easy. The author has a knack for both engaging writing and extensive research. I'm glad I read this. I thought it’d be all tongue-in-cheek “look at these ladies, scamming the rich and being fabulous” Ocean’s 8 style (which I’d read in a heartbeat, jsyk), but Confident Women actually turned out to be a lot more engaging and complex than I originally expected. Loved the wide range of characters: from quirky and bizarre to downright chilling. Definitely interesting enough to hold my attention during… all this, so a certified win. Can get a bit sad, though. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams??by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best??or worst. In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. In the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was soon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the Confederacy??or the Union, depending on who she was talking to. Meanwhile, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. In the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show dogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling their stories to magazines. What about today? Spoiler alert: these "artists" are still conning. Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathology??and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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