American Eve
Title | American Eve PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Uruburu |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1440629765 |
The scandalous story of America’s 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 Evelyn’s 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.
The Eve of Destruction
Title | The Eve of Destruction PDF eBook |
Author | James T. Patterson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2012-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465013589 |
Argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.
American Jezebel
Title | American Jezebel PDF eBook |
Author | Eve LaPlante |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0060562331 |
Electric Arches
Title | Electric Arches PDF eBook |
Author | Eve L. Ewing |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1608468690 |
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.
American Eve
Title | American Eve PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Uruburu |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-04-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1594483698 |
The scandalous story of America’s 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 Evelyn’s 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.
How Many Days to America?
Title | How Many Days to America? PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Bunting |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 38 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780395547779 |
Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.
The Opening of American Society
Title | The Opening of American Society PDF eBook |
Author | Robert H. Wiebe |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |