Tragic Beauty: The Lost 1914 Memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit

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Author: Deborah Paul
Publisher: Lulu.com
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 426964

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5

ISBN: 1411696972
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9781411696976
ASIN: 1411696972

Publication Date: April 30, 2006
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Product Description
The 1914 memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful chorus girl and model whose association with architect Stanford White would lead to his sensational murder at Madison Square Garden. In June 1906, Pittsburgh playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and murdered Stanford White, New York's most prominent architect, over a deadly dispute involving White's seduction of Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit.

Known as "the girl on the red velvet swing," Evelyn earned this moniker when she described swinging naked on a red velvet swing in Stanford White's New York studio apartment. Stanford White supposedly drugged and raped the sixteen-year-old Evelyn in the autumn of 1901. The scandal rocked the nation with its lurid details of sex, power, drugs, and insanity. The newspapers and tabloids had field day with the story and labeled the murder "The Crime of the Century."

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Evelyn Nesbit, classic beauty, sad story. October 7, 2008
Evelyn was New York's first "It" girl back at the beginning of the 20th century. Her wacko husband, Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburgh murdered famed architect Stanford White in 1906. Tragic Beauty is her autobiography of the events that led up to and following the murder. This book tells Evelyn's side of the story that was called "The Crime of the Century" back in 1906. Anyone interested in the Gilded Age should give this book a read. I really enjoyed reading the story from Evelyn's perspective.