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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.
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Justin Wilson
reviewed Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America on November 12, 2016 Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
Great nonfiction book but reads almost like a novel, so doubly enjoyable. The story of a rich, entitled daughter of one of the founding families of Colonial Virginia which has to be read to be believed. WHAT A JOURNEY SHE HAD! And she was smart, kind, apparently humble for the most part, uncomplaining, wicked strong when she needed to be. Really, really enjoyed learning of her life.
Would have given this 4.5 stars be of a little difficulty sometimes in following the story when it jumped around a couple of times, but honestly, wasn't worth dinging what what a very carefully researched, well presented true story of a woman caught in the worst of circumstances.
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