Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton
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Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton
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eng
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fiction
Main title
Defending Alice
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1348968022
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Richard Stratton
Sub title
a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties
Summary
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. Based on a true story
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adult
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Subject
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction
- Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
- FICTION / Biographical
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Rhinelander, Leonard Kip -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
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- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction
- Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
- FICTION / Biographical
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Rhinelander, Leonard Kip -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
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- Author1
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