American Eve Hardback - 2008
by Uruburu, Paula
The scandalous story of America's firstsupermodel, sex goddess, and moderncelebrity, Evelyn Nesbit, the temptress at thecenter of Stanford White's famous murder,whose iconic life story reflected all theparadoxes of America's Gilded Age.
Known to millions before her sixteenthbirthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was the mostphotographed woman of her era, an iconicfigure who set the standard for femalebeauty. Women wanted to be her. Menjust wanted her. When her life of fantasybecame all too real, and her jealous millionairehusband, Harry K. Thaw, killedher lover celebrity architect StanfordWhite, builder of the Washington SquareArch and much of New York City shefound herself at the center of the 'Crimeof the Century' and the popular courtroomdrama that followed a scandalthat signaled the beginning of a nationalobsession with youth, beauty, celebrity,and sex.
The story of Evelyn Nesbit is one ofglamour, money, romance, sex, madness,and murder, and Paula Uruburu weavesall of these elements into an elegantnarrativethat reads like the best fiction only it's all true. American Eve goes farbeyond just literary biography; it paintsa picture of America as it crossed fromthe Victorian era into the modern, foreshadowingso much of our contemporaryculture today.
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- Title American Eve
- Author Uruburu, Paula
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 400
- Language EN
- Publisher Riverhead Hardcover, New York
- Date 2008-05-01
- ISBN 9781594489938
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