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Confident Women
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of historys notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scamsby 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 bestor worst. In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rmy 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 Confederacyor 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 Carnegies 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 pathologyand how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?
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PathfinderNicole
PathfinderNicole
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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Hard cider flight at my son‘s online school welcome back field trip at a cider mill! I‘m going to enjoy and read my book while my menfolk hit up the corn maze

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kimmypete1
kimmypete1
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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Pickpick

Very interesting!

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Julsmarshall
Julsmarshall
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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This was so good! Funny and real, I loved hearing all these stories of women through the centuries pulling the most amazing cons, some shocking and some predictable, but all fascinating. I love this kind of #non-fiction. Didn‘t want to stop listening. Great on #audio too! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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jackilynn
jackilynn
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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1. My parents. I grew up in a house full of avid readers.

2. Neil Gaiman & Stephen King

3. The library I work at has a true crime book club I participate in & we are reading the tagged book.

I also am the host of the teen book club and we are reading The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Eggs #3 - wow! Good for you👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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jackilynn
jackilynn
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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Time to finally start the next Cocktails & Crimes book club pick.

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AvidReaderandGeekGirl
AvidReaderandGeekGirl
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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4.5 stars- The narrator was amazing! I loved the fun, witty way the book was written and it made what could have been a dry book, thoroughly enjoyable. I also liked how she went into some of the motivations of the women. Overall a very fun and informative book.

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AvidReaderandGeekGirl
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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kera_11
kera_11
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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happy women‘s history month
some of these were interesting as hell, funny how much women can get away with bc they‘re inherently more trustworthy and less threatening

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KateD1
KateD1
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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After reading “Lady Killers” I knew I wanted to read Tori Telfer‘s book about con women. Broken up into 4 parts, this book highlights various confidence artists throughout history. #truecrime #conartist #conwoman

tokorowilliamwallace Are you following this author and podcaster on Instagram? 3y
KateD1 @tokorowilliamwallace im not! I should be though! 3y
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Jen2
Jen2
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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Pickpick

Really good!!!

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kbuggle
kbuggle
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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Pickpick

This has fantastic audio narration, and the stories of the women are great. Really enjoyed this one

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Ephemera
Ephemera
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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True stories of female confidence criminals and their scams. The last chapter was about Sante Kimes, a woman who helped murder an 80 year old woman in NYC so she could take over all her assets and property. She was truly evil. Con games work well for women since most people trust a woman more than they would a man. Fast reading, decent writing. Four stars.🌟🌟🌟🌟

peanutnine Sounds interesting! 4y
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lowellette
lowellette
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion | Tori Telfer
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This was one wild story after the next. True crime fans will savor each story of female con artists spanning centuries and continents.

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