Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

Author/Contributor(s):	Weisberg, Barbara
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	02/20/2024
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"In 1864, the nation was riveted by a society divorce trial that had everything: cheating, wealth, feuding brothers and lurid details. Weisberg's sensitive examination reconstructs the trial while giving dimension to the real-life people involved." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice

Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.