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"In 1864, the nation was riveted by a society divorce trial that had everything: cheating, wealth, feuding brothers and lurid details Weisberg's sensitive examination reconstructs the trial while giving dimension to the real-life people involved."--The New York Times Book Review "Editors Choice"

Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.