quite a bit recently and I can’t think of a better way to pass the time then to dive into Defending Alice by Richard Stratton!
Synopsis:
When Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander, the son of one of New York’s most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society—and 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 real-life Rhinelander case set tongues wagging and became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in American history.
Thank you so much @harpervia for sending us this book! We can’t wait to get started!
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