Heidi Ardizzone, Earl Lewis

Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Too important to be ignored...A fascinating look at America's obsession with race, pride, and privilege." Essence

A modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nationand forced the couple into an annulment trial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393247466
• Artikelnr.: 59591736

Autorenporträt

Heidi Ardizzone is associate professor of American studies at Saint Louis University. She is the author of An Illuminated Life and The Color of Blood and coauthor of Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White.