Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.Kirkus ReviewsSet in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilegebased on a sensational reallife case that made international headlinesin which the marriage between a workingclass black woman and the scion of one of Americas most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit.When Alice Jones, a bluecolor woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard Kip Rhinelander, the son of one of New Yorks most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high societyand 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 reallife Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history. In Defending Alice, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couples courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alices attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kips fictional personal diaries, this epic pageturner vividly brings to life...

Binding: Hardback;576 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: FV; Weight: 840 g; Dimensions: 237 x 163 x 39

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