The scandalous story of Americaas first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbit, the temptress at the center of Stanford Whiteas famous murder, whose iconic life story reflected all the paradoxes of Americaas 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 loveracelebrity architect Stanford White, builder of the Washington Square Arch and much of New York Cityashe found herself at the center of the aCrime of the Centurya and the popular courtroom drama that followedaa 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 fictiona only itas all true. "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.
