Evelyn Nesbit And Stanford White
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American Eve
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Author : Paula Uruburu
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-05-01
American Eve written by Paula Uruburu and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.
Evelyn Nesbit And Stanford White
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Author : Michael Macdonald Mooney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Evelyn Nesbit And Stanford White written by Michael Macdonald Mooney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Celebrities categories.
American Eve
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
American Eve written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Celebrities categories.
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.
American Eve
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Author : Paula Uruburu
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-04-07
American Eve written by Paula Uruburu and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.
Tragic Beauty
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Author : Deborah Paul
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-04-01
Tragic Beauty written by Deborah Paul and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-01 with True Crime categories.
The 1914 memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful chorus girl and model whose association with architect Stanford White would later lead to his sensational murder at Madison Square Garden. In June 1906, Pittsburgh playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and murdered Stanford White, one of America's most famous architects, over a deadly dispute involving White's seduction of Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit. Known as "the girl on the red velvet swing," Evelyn earned this moniker when she described swinging naked on a red velvet swing in Stanford White's New York studio apartment. Stanford White had supposedly drugged and raped the sixteen-year-old Evelyn in the autumn of 1901. The scandal rocked the nation with its lurid details of sex, power, drugs, and insanity. The newspapers and tabloids had a field day with the story and labeled the murder "The Crime of the Century."
The Girl On The Velvet Swing
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Author : Simon Baatz
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-01-16
The Girl On The Velvet Swing written by Simon Baatz and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with True Crime categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. Evelyn Nesbit's testimony was so explicit and shocking that Theodore Roosevelt himself called on the newspapers not to print it verbatim. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine. The Girl on the Velvet Swing, a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims.
The Trial Of The Century
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language : en
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Prodigal Days
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Author : Evelyn Nesbit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-07
Prodigal Days written by Evelyn Nesbit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07 with True Crime categories.
The memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the showgirl, whose husband, Pittsburgh millionaire, Harry K. Thaw murdered New York's most famous architect, Stanford White in June 1906. Labeled "The Murder of the Century," the murder trial was covered by newspapers around the world.
The Architect Of Desire
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Author : Suzannah Lessard
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Architect Of Desire written by Suzannah Lessard and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of his day, White's legacy to the world were such masterpieces as New York's original Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and the Players, Metropolitan, and Colony clubs. He was also responsible for the palaces of such clients as the Whitneys, Vanderbilts, and Pulitzers, the robber barons of the Gilded Age whose power and dominance shaped the nation in its heady ascent at the turn of the century. As the century rolled on, however, the story of Stanford White and Evelyn Nesbit came to be viewed as glamorous and romantic, the darker narrative of White's out-of-control sexual compulsion obscured by time. Indeed, White's wife Bessie and his son Larry remained adamantly silent about the matter for the duration of their lives, a silence that reverberated through the next four generations of their extended family. Suzannah Lessard is the eldest of Stanford White's great grandchildren. It was only in her 30's that she began to sense the parallels between the silence about her great-grandfather's life and the silence about her own perilous experience as a little girl in her own home. Thus she became drawn to the remarkable history of her family in order to uncover its hidden truths, and in so doing to liberate herself from its enclosure at last. The result is a multi-layered memoir of astonishing elegance and power, one that, like a great building, is illumined room by room, chapter by chapter, until the whole is clearly seen.
The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing
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Author : Charles Samuels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-02-11
The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing written by Charles Samuels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-11 with categories.