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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the...
by Baatz, Simon | HC | VeryGood
US $7.93
ApproximatelyPHP 441.24
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780316396653
- Book Title
- Girl on the Velvet Swing : Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Law, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, Social History, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Legal History
- Item Weight
- 21.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316396656
ISBN-13
9780316396653
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237435732
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl on the Velvet Swing : Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, Social History, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Legal History
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Reviews
"Wickedly enjoyable and suddenly timely, Simon Baatz's The Girl on the Velvet Swing enthralled me from start to finish. The sprawling story, rendered with sure touches, encompasses the aspirations and vices of an entire era."-- Laurence Bergreen, author of Capone
Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora , dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. Evelyn Nesbit's testimony was so explicit and shocking that Theodore Roosevelt himself called on the newspapers not to print it verbatim. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine. The Girl on the Velvet Swing , a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims.
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