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American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century by Paula M. Uruburu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century about?
The scandalous story of America's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbit, the temptress at the center of Stanford White's famous murder, whose iconic life story reflected all the paradoxes of America's Gilded Age 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. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. When her life of fantasy became all too real, and 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 popular courtroom drama that followed, a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex. 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.__American Eve__ goes far beyond just literary biography; it paints a picture of America as it crosse
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- Author
- Paula M. Uruburu
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781440629761
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century (2014)
- American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century (2012)
- American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century (2009)
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