Defending Alice
A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
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James Anderson Foster
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Imani Jade Powers
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Joel Froomkin
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Richard Stratton
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“Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.”—Kirkus Reviews
Set in 1920s New York, an addictively listenable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege—based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines—in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America’s most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit.
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.
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. In Defending Alice, Richard Stratton reimagines this remarkable story, from the couple’s courtship through their controversial marriage to their shocking divorce trial and its aftermath. Chronicled by Alice’s attorney, brilliant trial lawyer Lee Parsons Davis, and told in flashbacks and entries from Alice and Kip’s fictional personal diaries, this epic pause-resister vividly brings to life the New York of a century ago—a world seemingly far removed yet tragically familiar to our own.
Stratton brilliantly evokes this dazzling era in all its glamour and excess, and in retelling the Rhinelander story, explores issues of sex, race, class, prejudice, and justice that are as relevant today as they were a century ago when this headline-making trial took place.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Kate D.
- 12-13-22
Amazing!
Remarkable! Lyrical, impossible to put down. A must read! Thoroughly engaging and thought provoking. A true gem.
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- Pam BJ
- 03-18-23
No Surprise Story
I am not surprised at the story. Given the times it was set in. Relief came with the verdict. I am so glad Mrs. R. was found not guilty in real life as well. I made my own spoiler alert by researching the case. Race issues will continue as long as unfounded hatred from people who do not want others to be breathing the same God Provided air they breathe. Go to Lowes, get some lumber and tools, build a bridge, And Get Over The HATE YOU GIVE!! Ok. Soapbox is Done!!
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- Gumbygirl1
- 11-14-23
what a waste of time - just aweful
it just goes on and on saying the same thing over and over, hour after hour.
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