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The story is told well and the research done on the subject is meticulous. Sound like anyone familiar? Britney Spears perhaps? How about Lindsay Lohan? American Eve is a cautionary tale that is undoubtedly destined to be ignored by those it could help the most.

Though these events took place over a 100 years ago, Evelyn’s experiences echo resoundingly across the years to mirror those of today’s young celebrities: beautiful young girl finds success as a model or actress, becomes famous, is relentlessly pursued by fans, some become friends – their real motives cleverly hidden, but once revealed result in intense pressure from media and even tragedy. Finally, Evelyn was pursued and won by Harry K. With no adult guidance and little experience with hidden agendas, the naïve Evelyn fell prey to older men who her mother allowed intentionally or not, into their lives. But fate, Stanford White and her mother intervened and it was not to be. While still under White’s ‘tutelage’ Evelyn met John Barrymore and almost had a normal relationship with someone her own age. He took his time with Evelyn and her mother, slowing winning their trust before showing his true colours. He arranged to meet Evelyn through another chorus girl in the floradora show. American Eve goes far beyond just literary biography it paints a picture of America as it crossed from the Victorian era into the modern, foreshadowing so much of our contemporary culture today.Show More popular figure in entertainment. The story of Evelyn Nesbit is one of glamour, money, romance, sex, madness, and murder, and Paula Uruburu weaves all of these elements into an elegant narrativethat reads like the best fiction-only it's all true. Thaw, killed her lover-celebrity architect Stanford White, builder of the Washington Square Arch and much of New York City-she found herself at the center of the "Crime of the Century" and the popular courtroom drama that followed-a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex. When her life of fantasy became all too real, and her jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Known to millions before her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty.