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Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion

text Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion

Summary

"Why do we love stories about scammers so much? Journalist Tori Telfer dives into the stories of historical female con women and explains why we are so enamored by their scams"--

Contents
Introduction: Charming -- The glitterati. Jeanne de Saint-Rémy ; Cassie Chadwick ; Wang Ti -- The seers. The spiritualists ; Fu Futtam ; Rose Marks -- The fabulists. The Anastasias ; Roxie Ann Rice ; The tragediennes ; Bonny Lee Bakley -- The drif... Read more
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xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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East Bay Branch Library 364.16 TEL in Adult Non-fiction Available
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