Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal by Shaplen, Robert
Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal by Shaplen, Robert

Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal

A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of "one of the most sensational trials in American history"...
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Author: Robert Shaplen
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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal by Shaplen, Robert

Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal

$40.78
Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal by Shaplen, Robert

Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal

$40.78
Author: Robert Shaplen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Robert Shaplen
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781946022912


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2024
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2024

About the Author
Robert Shaplen (1917-1988) began reporting in the Pacific theater during World War Two and became one of America's most influential experts on East Asia in the postwar era. He was Far East correspondent for the New Yorker from 1962 to 1978, and remained a New Yorker staff writer for the rest of his life. He published ten books, including one novel and one story collection. Free Love (originally titled Free Love and Heavenly Sinners) was his only foray into nineteenth-century American history.

Louis Menand is an award-winning essayist, critic, author, professor, and historian, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
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