In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her newborn son. Once one of the most sought-after young women in Virginia society, she was denounced as a ruined Jezebel, and the great orator Patrick Henry and future Supreme Court justice John Marshall were retained to defend her in a sensational trial. This gripping account of murder, infanticide, prostitution charges, moral decline, and heroism that played out in the intimate lives of the nation’s Founding Fathers is as riveting and revealing as any current scandal — in or out of Washington.
Author: Alan Pell Crawford
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.48w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780743264679
Language: English
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