American Gilt: Scandal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533379252)

"American Gilt - Scandal" (Vol 3) Now with 9 Million pages read on Kindle! Find out why 'The American Gilt Trilogy' is an Amazon Best Seller in "Biographies" 'Gilded Age Historical Romance', 'U.S. Historical' and 'Coming of Age' categories.
Based on the life of Sara Swan Whiting, 'Scandal' the final book in the American Gilt Trilogy continues in 1884 as Sara Swan Whiting, once a popular gilded age d饕utante finds herself disgraced by divorce and left with a child to raise alone. Previously an admired member of the social set, Sara is now shunned and the target of harsh judgment and criticism by her contemporaries in the wake of a divorce from her short-lived marriage to socialite Oliver H.P. Belmont, who continues his life unscathed by the scandal due to a double-standard of acceptable conduct for men.
But how much is truth and how much is propaganda generated by rumors and the newspapers? In this exciting finale to the American Gilt Trilogy readers are transported through time to the wealth and confines of America's elite Gilded Age society.
Based on the true story 'American Gilt - Scandal' concludes with information gathered from letters, historical newspapers and personal interviews. Author J. D. Peterson weaves a compelling trilogy based on the historical account of the Belmont-Whiting Scandal of 1883.
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