{"product_id":"confident-women-swindlers-grifters-and-shapeshifters-of-the-feminine-persuasion-isbn-9780062956033","title":"Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion","description":"\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 | \u003cp\u003e“Think serial killers are always male? This creepy, darkly humorous compendium of real-life tales will sho you otherwise—and keep you up at night” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whether she's describing women pretending to be doctors, socialites, or just another nice lady who desperately needed help, Telfer dishes up their scandalous schemes for true-crime fans to relish.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers who appreciate a well-executed sting will enjoy this thoroughly researched yet breezy guide to notorious women.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grifters! Fake Heiresses! Phony Royalty! Imposter Chinese Princelings! Faux Ghostbusters and More! The brilliantly crazy conniving women in CONFIDENT WOMEN have a helluva lot of nerve—and I love it!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarisa Acocella, New York Times best selling author of Cancer Vixen, Ann Tenna and The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Telfer proves that you can stab, poison, and suffocate the predictable tropes about female killers and still write something salacious and entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaitlin Doughty, New York Times bestselling author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderfully executed—no pun intended—historical account of female killers. \u003cem\u003eLady Killers \u003c\/em\u003eis a thrilling character study of the most diabolically complex, fascinating female psychopaths in history.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. 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