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Author:

Stratton, Richard.

Title:

Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the Roaring Twenties / Richard Stratton.

Edition:

First HarperVia Edition.

Publisher:

HarperVia

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

566 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Interracial marriage--Fiction.
Divorce--Fiction.
New York (N.Y)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Notes:

When Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander, the son of one of New York’s most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society—and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her “Negro blood” and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals, the real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple’s courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alice’s attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip’s fictional personal diaries, this epic page-turner vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago—a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own.

ISBN:

0063115468
9780063115460

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