“She was a relentless, cold-blooded demon, a female smiling Buddah, a very wicked woman,” I was told by a Memphis pediatrician who’d tried vainly to curb her in the 1940s. “She got bigger and bigger the more power she had. She was pompous, self important- she was like Hitler, riding around in a big Cadillac driven by a uniformed chauffeur. She terrorized everyone.” I learned of Georgia Tann earlier this year while reading Before We Were Yours and was both fascinated and disgusted by the woman who, […]