"Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman-- and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America" by Alan Pell Crawford, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000. First Edition, First printing with digit '1' present in the digit line on the copyright page. The story of Anne Cary Randolph Morris, 1774-1837.

Original price un-clipped dust jacket, hard boards, gold lettering on spine; 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; 321 pages including endnotes, Acknowledgments, and About the Author page, illustrated with map, genealogical chart, and text illustrations. Very good/ fine condition.

"Crawford addresses his subject with a historian's accuracy, and he generously spices his text with rich and gossipy details....[He] crafts an elegant, true history with intelligence and grace." [The News & Observer]

"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 infant. Once one of the loveliest and most sought-after young women in Virginia society, she was immediately denounced as a ruined Jezebel, and the great orator Patrick Henry and future Supreme Court justice John Marshall were retained to defend her in her sensational trial. In the tradition of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Alan Pell Crawford brings to life this gripping account of murder, infanticide, and 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." [review]

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