EAN: 9781946022912

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A wry instructive and hugely entertaining account of one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review). On the night of July 3 1870 Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights a presidential hopeful an influential supporter of Abolition and a leader of the campaign for women’s suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons it was a whisper network of suffragists notably Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who spread news of the affair and it was the radical Victoria Woodhull—an outspoken proponent of free love”—who seized on it as political dynamite to blow up the myth of monogamy among the political elite. Her public accusations led to even more public trials which shocked the country and divided the most progressive thinkers of the era. In 1953 the journalist Robert Shaplen revisited the Tilton-Beecher affair in a series of articles for the New Yorker relying on 3 000 pages of contemporary accounts—court transcripts love-letters newspaper reports and illustrations even political cartoons—to reanimate a scandal that shook the American reform movement and to expose a strand of America’s cultural DNA that remains recognizable today.

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