{"product_id":"confident-women-swindlers-grifters-and-shapeshifters-of-the-feminine-persuasion-paperback","title":"Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTori Telfer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thoroughly entertaining and darkly\u003cbr\u003ehumorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists\u003cbr\u003eand their bold, outrageous scams--by the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eLady Killers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and\u003cbr\u003eCharles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us\u003cbr\u003eas a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in \u003cem\u003eConfident Women\u003c\/em\u003e, the art of the\u003cbr\u003econ has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some\u003cbr\u003eof the best--or worst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal\u003cbr\u003ejewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by\u003cbr\u003epretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they\u003cbr\u003ecould speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was\u003cbr\u003esoon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta\u003cbr\u003eVelasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the\u003cbr\u003eConfederacy--or the Union, depending on who she was talking to. Meanwhile, \u003cbr\u003eCassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of\u003cbr\u003e$40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton\u003cbr\u003eembezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show\u003cbr\u003edogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire\u003cbr\u003eNFL. And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling\u003cbr\u003etheir stories to magazines. What about today? Spoiler alert: these \"artists\"\u003cbr\u003eare still conning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfident Women \u003c\/em\u003easks the provocative\u003cbr\u003equestion: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathology--and\u003cbr\u003ehow were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their\u003cbr\u003evictims?\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334806049005,"sku":"9780062956033","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/2vonMcRIt09780062956033.webp?v=1785023009","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/confident-women-swindlers-grifters-and-shapeshifters-of-the-feminine-persuasion-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}