Defending Alice - Richard Stratton

Gripping Courtroom Drama And Social Commentary. The Story Flows Well. The Author Is Masterful In Building Suspense.kirkus Reviewsset In 1920s New York, An Addictively Readable, Thoroughly Entertaining Historical Novel Involving Sex And Secrets, Race And Redemption, And Power And Privilegebased On A Sensational Real-life Case That Made International Headlinesin Which The Marriage Between A Working-class Black Woman And The Scion Of One Of Americas Most Powerful White Families Ends In A Scandalous Annulment Lawsuit.when Alice Jones, A Blue-color Woman With At Least One Black Parent Marries Leonard Kip Rhinelander, The Son Of One Of New Yorks Most Prominent Society Families, The Scandal Rocks High Societyand 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.while New York Society In The Roaring Twenties Witnessed More Than A Few Scandals, The Real-life Rhinelander Case Set Tongues Wagging And Became Perhaps The Most Examined Interracial Relationship In American History.