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100 1 a| Shaplen, Robert,d| 1917-1988,e| author.=| ^A23679;

240 10 a| Free love and heavenly sinners=| ^A1480598;

245 10 a| Free love :b| the story of a great American scandal /c| Robert Shaplen ; with a foreword by Louis Menand.;

250 a| First McNally Editions paperback.;

264 1 a| New York :b| McNally Editions,c| [2024];

300 a| xvi, 238 pages :b| black and white illustrations ;c| 22 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

500 a| "McNally Editions no. 28"--Cover.;

500 a| Initially published as a series of articles for the New Yorker.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

500 a| "Originally published in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York"--Verso title page.;

520 a| "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--Page 2 of cover.;

505 00 t| Nesting on the heights --t| The overturned nest --t| The broken eggs.;

600 10 a| Beecher, Henry Ward,d| 1813-1887v| Trials, litigation, etc.=| ^A38038;

600 10 a| Tilton, Theodore,d| 1835-1907v| Trials, litigation, etc.=| ^A39792;

600 10 a| Tilton, Elizabeth M. Richards,d| 1834-1897v| Trials, litigation, etc.=| ^A134741;

600 10 a| Woodhull, Victoria C.q| (Victoria Claflin),d| 1838-1927.=| ^A30123;

651 0 a| Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)v| Biography.=| ^A418438;

651 0 a| United Statesx| Social life and customsy| 1865-1918.=| ^A22926;

650 0 a| Trials (Adultery)z| United Statesy| 19th century.=| ^A849900;

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700 1 a| Menand, Louis,e| writer of foreword.=| ^A204635;

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Free love : the story of a great American scandal / Robert Shaplen ; with a foreword by Louis Menand.

Author/creator	Shaplen, Robert author.
Other author	Menand, Louis, writer of foreword.
Format	Book
Edition	First McNally Editions paperback.
Publication	New York : McNally Editions, [2024]
Copyright Date	©1954
Description	xvi, 238 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects	Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887--Trials, litigation, etc. Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907--Trials, litigation, etc. Tilton, Elizabeth M. Richards, 1834-1897--Trials, litigation, etc. Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927. Trials (Adultery)--United States. --History. --19th century. Congregationalists--New York (State). --New York. --Biography. Trials (Adultery)--United States. --19th century. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography. United States--Social life and customs. --1865-1918.

Uniform title	Free love and heavenly sinners
Contents	Nesting on the heights -- The overturned nest -- The broken eggs.
Abstract	"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--Page 2 of cover.
General note	"McNally Editions no. 28"--Cover.
General note	Initially published as a series of articles for the New Yorker.
General note	"Originally published in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York"--Verso title page.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	Biographies.
Other title	New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
ISBN	9781946022912
ISBN	1946022918 (paperback)

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