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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America

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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America - Crawford, Alan Pell
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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 ...

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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America 2005, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780743264679

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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America 2000, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780684834740

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