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. American Eve Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu Riverhead Books It all began with a face. Considered an expert on Evelyn Nesbit and the time period, she has been widely published and has appeared or consulted on A&E's Biography, PBS's History Detectives, and various series for the History Channel. New York American on June 26th, 1906 The motive for this murder was an event that took place about five years earlier, when the 47- year old White raped 16-year old actress, Evelyn Nesbit, after plying her with liquor through intermediaries. 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 narrativethat reads like the best fiction-only it's all true. Paula Uruburu is chair of the English Department at Hofstra University. 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. When her life of fantasy became all too real, and her jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. 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.
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