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.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
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Author: Uruburu, Paula
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594483691
Details:
Author: Uruburu, Paula
Brand: Riverhead Books
Color: White
Binding: Paperback
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 400
Release Date: 07-04-2009
Part Number: 9781594483691
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9781594483691
