The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385319423ISBN-10:385319428UPC:9780385319423Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Historical, Artists, Architects, Photographers, MurderSize:9.20 x 6.08 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCH638CZR5
The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of his day, White's legacy to the world were...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385319423ISBN-10:385319428UPC:9780385319423Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Historical, Artists, Architects, Photographers, MurderSize:9.20 x 6.08 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCH638CZR5
Suzannah Lessard was a staff writer at The New Yorker for twenty years, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harvard Design and The Washington Monthly, of which she is a founding editor. She has received the Whiting award, the Jenny Moore Fellowship at George Washington University, the Anthony Lukas Work-in-progress Award, and a Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson...
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