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Author Stratton, Richard (Richard H.), author.

Title Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties / Richard Stratton.

Publisher New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.

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Edition First HarperVia edition.
Physical Description 566 pages ; 24 cm
Summary In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
Subject Jones, Alice Beatrice -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.
Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.