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Queen of the Con
Thomas Crowl
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The Kent State University Press 
Belletristik / Romanhafte Biographien
Beschreibung
The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie ImposterQueen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "e;one of the top 10 imposters of all time,"e; according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland, Cassie met and married a widowed physician with a coveted Euclid Avenue address.At the dawn of the 20th century, Cassie borrowed $2 million (worth roughly $50 million today) throughout northern Ohio, Pittsburgh, New York, and Boston by convincingly posing as the illegitimate daughter of wealthy industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. When the fraud collapsed in 1904, it was a nationwide sensation. "e;Yes, I borrowed money in very large amounts,"e; she told reporters, "e;but what of it? You can't accuse a poor businesswoman of being a criminal, can you?"e; Carnegie, who never responded to the claim, merely joked that Mrs. Chadwick had demonstrated that his credit was still good.This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes or fake heiress Anna Sorokin, the "e;Soho Grifter."e; Crowl's engaging storytelling also leads readers to consider aspects of gender stereotypes, social and economic class structures, and the ways in which we humans can so often be fooled.
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