American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century / Paula Uruburu.
Famous by her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Gibson Girl 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 wanted her. When 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 scandal that marked the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex. The story of Evelyn Nesbit is one of glamour, money, romance, 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, a picture of America as it crossed from the Victorian era into the modern.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9781594489938
- Physical Description: 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-386).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: The Garden of the New World 1 -- Chapter 1 Siren Song 7 -- Chapter 2 Beautiful City of Smoke 21 -- Chapter 3 Poses 37 -- Chapter 4 Little Sphinx in Manhattan 53 -- Chapter 5 Florodora 79 -- Chapter 6 Benevolent Vampire 97 -- Chapter 7 Through the Looking Glass 131 -- Chapter 8 At the Feet of Diana 145 -- Chapter 9 Barrymore Curse 163 -- Chapter 10 Enter Mad Harry 177 -- Chapter 11 Worst Mistake of Her Life 205 -- Chapter 12 "Mistress of Millions" 249 -- Chapter 13 Curtains: June 25, 1906 269 -- Chapter 14 Aftershock 289 -- Chapter 15 Dementia Americana 303 -- Chapter 16 A Woman's Sacrifice 317 -- Chapter 17 America's Pet Murderer 357 -- Epilogue: The Fallen Idol 367.
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