We will meet on the third Monday of every month\, except July &\; December. This wil l be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing. In Septem ber we will be reading and discussing \;Confident Women: Swindlers \, Grifters\, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Te lfer.
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\nFrom Eliza beth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi\, audaciou s 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 som e of the best&mdash\;or worst.
\nIn the 1700s in Paris\, Jeanne de Saint-Ré\;my scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by preten ding she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette.
\nIn the mid-1800s\, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pre tending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious m ovement that was soon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling hers elf Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people s he worked for the Confederacy&mdash\;or the Union\, depending on who she w as talking to. Meanwhile\, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getti ng banks to loan her upwards of $40\,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie&rsquo\;s illegitimate daughter.
\nIn the 1900s\, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzl ed 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 Ana stasia have been selling their stories to magazines. What about today? Spo iler alert: these &ldquo\;artists&rdquo\; are still conning. \;
\n< p style="padding-left: 30px\;">Confident Women \;asks the pro vocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pa thology&mdash\;and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?\nView and print the list of books and check out WPPL's Book Discussion page for more book and movie clubs!
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