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Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl, and the Crime of the Century
Riverhead
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 1594489939
EAN: 9781594489938
Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction Biography
The scandalous story of America's first supermodel,
sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbit, the
temptress at the center of Stanford White's famous murder,
whose iconic life story reflected all the paradoxes of
America's Gilded Age.
Known to millions before
her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was the most
photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the
standard for female beauty. Women wanted to be her. Men just
wanted her. When her life of fantasy became all too real,
and her jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, killed
her lover—celebrity architect Stanford White, builder of the
Washington Square Arch and much of New York City—she found
herself at the center of the "Crime of the Century" and the
popular courtroom drama that followed—a scandal that
signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth,
beauty, celebrity, and sex.
The story of Evelyn
Nesbit is one of glamour, money, romance, sex, madness, and
murder, and Paula Uruburu weaves all of these elements into
an elegant narrative that reads like the best fiction— only
it's all true. American Eve goes far beyond just
literary biography; it paints a picture of America as it
crossed from the Victorian era into the modern,
foreshadowing so much of our contemporary culture today.
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