Strong Passions

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