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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
Robert Shaplen
What The Reviewers Say
Rave
Harper\'s
It’s fun to view this much older affair through the lens of Shaplen’s durable midcentury elegance—looking back in time twice.
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Rave Kirkus
Shaplen delves intriguingly into the era of a swiftly changing, new-money, reform-minded New York City ... An utterly engaging historical excavation of a passion play both farcical and resounding.
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Positive Publishers Weekly
Shaplen’s eye for detail creates a vision of sweaty, prurient absurdity in postbellum America. This enthralls.
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