Unwise Passions
Subtitle: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780743264679
Subjects: United States - Revolutionary War; General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Murder - General; Biography & Autobiography / General
First sentence: The accusation was this: A blameless babe had been torn from its screaming mother's womb, either strangled or stabbed (the method of its murder had not been determined), its bleeding body hustled down the cold stairs into the still, starlit night and flung like the contents of a chamber pot onto the nearest trash pile.