Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal

A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review). On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous...