Beauty Possessed

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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
Author Ben Lokey
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781621124870
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 335
PublicationDate 2012-03-13
ReleaseDate 2012-03-13

Country	USA
Author	Ben Lokey
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781621124870
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	335
PublicationDate	2012-03-13
ReleaseDate	2012-03-13

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