Paula Uruburu

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Paula Uruburu

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Join my Facebook group for American Eve at
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Nice news to share—The New York Times Book Review will be featuring AMERICAN EVE in Paperback Row in the May 10th issue.



My book, AMERICAN EVE (Riverhead Penguin) is a biography of the first "It" girl Evelyn Nesbit and her role in the crime of the century. An English Prof. at Hofstra University, I love the Gilded Age, the Gothic and Grotesque, pop culture, and photography/film history. I've consulted for A&E, PBS, + the History Channel. Of Basque Irish descent, my roots are in Brooklyn, Bilbao, County Cork and Massapequa (which Jerry Seinfeld says its Native American for"by the mall”) I live in a haunted house on Long Island and hope I don't end up in the touri
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Hi. I want to invite all my friends to join the American Eve Facebook group and to let you know that it is going to be featured in this Sunday's New York Times Book review in Paperback Row (since it just came out in paperback in April.)
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Published on May 09, 2009 05:57 Tags: age, crime, evelyn, gilded, harry-potter, nesbit, stanford, thaw, true, white
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“God gave me my money. . . . God has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America and all it holds for all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man. —John D. Rockefeller, 1900”
Paula Uruburu, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

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“Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.”
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