03210cam a2200325 4500 529554410 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781549140198 1549140191 3e9616a9-5f9d-4752-a395-7783edcf4b85 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3461319 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Baatz, Simon. The Girl on the Velvet Swing [Libby] : Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Hachette Book Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 286MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 286MB. History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>In 1901, Evelyn Nesbit, the pin-up girl and penniless young actress, dined with Stanford White, the legendary architect whose works defined the New York landscape, at his 24th St. apartment. Evelyn drank champagne and was dazzled by a tour of White's decadent rooms, which included a sumptuous velvet couch swing on which Evelyn played. Evelyn was given more champagne, and lost consciousness. She woke, nearly naked, in bed next to White. White was forty-seven years old. Evelyn Nesbit was just sixteen.</p> <p>Four years later, tarnished by the air of impropriety that in those days surrounded a lowly career in the theater, Evelyn would marry Harry Thaw, a playboy millionaire rumored to be mentally unstable, and in whom she confided the story of her encounter with Stanford White. One night in 1906, a vengeful Thaw shot and killed White before hundreds of theater-goers during a performance at Madison Square Garden-a venue designed by none other than White himself.</p> <p>The city-and the nation that looked to it-erupted with news of the murder and ensuing trial, then the most sensational scandal in history: one so sordid that President Teddy Roosevelt himself would try and stop the press from covering it. But the murder of Stanford White stood for far more than tabloid scandal. Evelyn's shocking testimony would propel her to an uneasy stardom, an uncertain fortune, and send the case before the Supreme Court.</p> <p>Filled with the glamour, jealousy, and danger of the Gilded Age, <i>The Girl on the Velvet Swing</i> is an immersive, richly detailed look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes, and at the women whose lives depended on them.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Lakin, Christine. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3461319-TheGirlOnTheVelvetSwing.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3e9616a9-5f9d-4752-a395-7783edcf4b85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3461319-TheGirlOnTheVelvetSwing.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3e9616a9-5f9d-4752-a395-7783edcf4b85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)