American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl and the Crime of the Century

The story of Evelyn Nesbit is one of glamour, money, sex, and murder, and Uruburu weaves all of these elements into an elegant narrative that reads like the best fiction--only it's all true. Illustrated. 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.