false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207252253m/2845191.jpg 2845191 2 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> The story of Evelyn Nesbit is one of glamor, money, romance, sex, madness, and murder, and Paula Uruburu weaves all of these elements into an elegant narrative that reads like the best fiction only it's all true. <I>American Eve</I> 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. 2871310 1 5 2008 American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century total:288|5:56|4:105|3:86|2:31|1:10| 288 1030 691 103 2 12 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 18 19:36:23 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 01 18:23:50 -0700 2009
Oh, American Eve. I was so primed and eager to fall in love with you! Over the years ...more...]]> 3 4 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 09:52:55 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 21:22:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 13:01:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 15:51:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 17:08:19 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 22:30:50 -0700 2008
Paula Uruburu is certainly the expert on Evelyn Nesbit, her terrible story and why it's been fascinating to so many of the morb...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 13:47:54 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 18:29:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 10 09:24:20 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 09:53:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Mar 05 06:54:28 -0800 2008 Tue May 27 13:32:51 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 15:18:01 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 06:19:41 -0700 2008 American Experience: Murder of the Century). What a joy it is to now have this sad, dramatic life explored in depth. The overall tone is very sympathetic to Evelyn, while mai...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue May 06 11:29:02 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 09:29:53 -0700 2008
Uruburu’s exhilarating tale begins in NYC duri...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 07:24:31 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 07:24:31 -0700 2008 Just finished this - what an absorbing book! Feel Like I have to reacclimate to the 21st century!

While I knew the bare outlines of the story, the extent of the detail here is extraordinary. Ten years of research, thought, writing & editing have really paid off.

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Sex. A one-word sentence like that is too melodramatic a device to employ in a serious history book.

And extended metaphors equatin...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 08:06:39 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 11:48:03 -0700 2008
The combined atrocities of Stanford White and Harry...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 00:36:58 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 00:37:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 19:05:59 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:06:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 14:23:41 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:25:44 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING review of American Eve:

Immaterial Girl: Paula Uruburu on Evelyn Nesbit, a Real Pre-Madonna

At the turn of the century, Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful, most photographed and possibly the most admired woman in America. Envied by women, courted by men, she...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 07:24:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 07:32:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 20:54:14 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 20:55:05 -0800 2009
While Uruburu gives a good and interesting overview of this period in history, I can't figure out why she chose to pluck Nesbit from obscurity. As many feminist academics writing today desire to recover women's stories from misrepresentation, and I applaud this kind of w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 28 08:50:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 08:55:31 -0700 2009 The book contains s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 07:01:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:06:58 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 21 14:59:46 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 15:00:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2845191