num_pages: 316
description: "Too important to be ignored…A fascinating look at America's obsession with race, pride, and privilege." ― Essence A modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation―and forced the couple into an annulment trial.
language: English
title: Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
titlecomplete: Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
genres: Nonfiction, American History, 20th Century, Race, History
ratings_count: 103
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company