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03568aam a2200505 i 4500 001 995C230C223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 230622t20241954nyua b 000 0deng d 020 $a 1946022918 020 $a 9781946022912 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1384411990 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCP $d OCLCA $d OCP $d OCLCO $d KEU $d JQW $d UOK $d GO4 $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 050 04 $a BX7260.B31 $b S5 2024 082 04 $a 285.80922 $2 23/eng/20240411 082 04 $a 973.82 $2 23 100 1 $a Shaplen, Robert, $d 1917-1988, $e author. 240 10 $a Free love and heavenly sinners 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. 260 $a New York : $b McNally Editions, $c [2024] 300 $a xvi, 238 pages : $b black and white illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "McNally Editions no. 28"--Cover. 500 $a Initially published as a series of articles for the New Yorker. 500 $a "Originally published in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York"--Verso title page. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t The broken eggs. $t The overturned nest -- $t The broken eggs. 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-- $c from the jacket flap. 600 10 $a Beecher, Henry Ward, $d 1813-1887 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Tilton, Theodore, $d 1835-1907 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Tilton, Elizabeth M. Richards, $d 1834-1897 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Woodhull, Victoria C. $q (Victoria Claflin), $d 1838-1927. 650 0 $a Trials (Adultery) $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Congregationalists $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 0 $a Trials (Adultery) $z United States $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 1865-1918. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Menand, Louis, $e writer of foreword. 730 0 $a New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) 941 $a 2 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240606010047.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604014857.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=995C230C223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search