American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl, and the Crime of the Century
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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.Philip LopateWonderfully absorbing . . . A lurid tabloid story of yore brought to fresh life and relevance with remarkable insight, verve and wisdom. Old New York is laid bare in all its decadence and the cult of pubescent beauty traced to its source, all with worldliness, wit, humor, compassion, and suspense. The result is a real page-turner. (Philip Lopate, author of Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan and Writing New York)
Introduction The Garden of the New World 1Ch. 1 Siren Song 7Ch. 2 Beautiful City of Smoke 21Ch. 3 Poses 31Ch. 4 The Little Sphinx in Manhattan 53Ch. 5 Florodora 79Ch. 6 Benevolent Vampire 97Ch. 7 Through the Looking Glass 131Ch. 8 At the Feet of Diana 145Ch. 9 The Barrymore Curse 163Ch. 10 Enter Mad Harry 177Ch. 11 The Worst Mistake of Her Life 205Ch. 12 The "Mistress of Millions" 249Ch. 13 Curtains: June 25, 1906 269Ch. 14 Aftershock 289Ch. 15 Dementia Americana 303Ch. 16 A Woman's Sacrifice 317Ch. 17 America's Pet Murderer 357Epilogue: The Fallen Idol 367Notes 375Further Reading 387
