Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal. Robert Shaplen, Louis Menand
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ISBN: 9781946022912 | 264 pages | 7 Mb
- Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
- Robert Shaplen, Louis Menand
- Page: 264
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- ISBN: 9781946022912
- Publisher: McNally Editions
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Notes From Your Bookseller A 19th-century scandal with layers upon layers of intrigue, now laid bare in its entirety. This is the completely true story of an affair that rocked the nation, from the small town to the White House. Engaging in modern themes of progressivism and free love, this is endlessly captivating as Robert Shaplen peels back the layers. A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review). On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of Abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women’s suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it was a whisper network of suffragists, notably Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who spread news of the affair, and it was the radical Victoria Woodhull—an outspoken proponent of “free love”—who seized on it, as political dynamite, to blow up the myth of monogamy among the political elite. Her public accusations led to even more public trials, which shocked the country and divided the most progressive thinkers of the era. In 1953, the journalist Robert Shaplen revisited the Tilton-Beecher affair in a series of articles for the New Yorker, relying on 3,000 pages of contemporary accounts—court transcripts, love-letters, newspaper reports and illustrations, even political cartoons—to reanimate a scandal that shook the American reform movement and to expose a strand of America’s cultural DNA that remains recognizable today.
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