![]() ![]() ![]() Harold Schecter, author of "The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century"ĪOf all the famous beauties of a hundred years ago, Evelyn Nesbit is the only one who would still turn heads today. Karen Abbott, author of "Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul"ĪBy centering her book on the ever-fascinating figure of Evelyn Nesbitathe stunningly beautiful chorine whose sexual charisma still burns through the Victorian photographs that adorn the bookaUruburu has produced not only a tour de force of historical crime writing and an illuminating social history but a rollicking piece of storytelling: a work that brings to life an entire glittering era while maintaining a breathless narrative pace.a Evelyn Nesbit typified the glorious excesses of the Gilded Age, and this story has everything: sex, deception, drama, and a lurid love triangle, all culminating in the crime of the century.a APaula Uruburu serves up an intriguing and meticulously researched slice of American history. ![]()
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