Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America - Softcover

Kierner, Cynthia A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813926165 ISBN 13: 9780813926162

Verlag: University Press of Virginia, 2006

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Book by Kierner Cynthia A

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Here's a scholarly book that artfully relates a riveting tale with lasting historical repercussions and significance. Readers will be drawn by the story of a strong woman who may have been wronged; the great Randolph family of Virginia torn asunder; the implication of members of Thomas Jefferson's circle; slaves' whispers fanning the flames of scandal; and eventual reconciliation of sorts.... [Kierner] reports with a colorist's deft touch and a fiction writer's delight while remaining faithful to scholarly conventions and trends.... This account analyzes part of the reality of Jefferson's Virginia in the nation's early years. Kierner makes us look at the world of the founders in all its messy complexity and humanity. oPublishers Weekly

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In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Randolph found himself on trial fro the crime largely because of public outrage fueled by rumors about the alleged crime. A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Cynthia Kierner's Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long vanished.

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• Verlag: University Press of Virginia
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813926165
• ISBN 13: 9780813926162
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258