American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

ISBN: 1594483698

Author: Uruburu, Paula

Condition: New

The scandalous story of Americas first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity-Evelyn Nesbit.By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyns life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the Crime of the Century and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.