Beauty Possessed

Beauty Possessed

BEAUTY POSSESSED is a historical fiction romance novel, based on the actual events of model/showgirl Evelyn Nesbitâ€™s life, leading up to what was coined the â€œMurder of the Centuryâ€ by the press, a crime reported â€œto the ends of the civilized globe.â€Â
On June 25th, 1906, Stanford White, New York Cityâ€™s leading architect and man about town was shot to death while attending a musical performance at Madison Square Gardenâ€™s rooftop theater, a building of his own design and construction. Harry K. Thaw, eccentric heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, had pulled the trigger, marking the final act in a struggle between the two men over Thawâ€™s young wife, the model and showgirl Evelyn Nesbit. By her sixteenth birthday, in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known by millions for her underage sexuality, sparking an entirely new industry of news and gossip and signaling the beginning of Americaâ€™s growing obsession with beauty, glamour, celebrity and sex. Â Â
Â Pleas for clemency by wealthy supporters for Thaw touched off an extended debate over widespread acceptance of a double standard â€“ one for rich Americans and another for everyone else.
For those who think Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are unique to this generation, the exemplars of a declining society, or worse, the purveyors of a diminished moral sensibility, think again.
Â Money, power, sex, drugs, jealousy, betrayal, murder, art and Broadway are the ingredients of this true story, as relevant today as it was in 1906.Â
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-03-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-03-13
Format	Kindle eBook

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