In 1925, America could not look away.
When Leonard Rhinelander, heir to one of New York's wealthiest families, married Alice Jones, a working-class woman, their union was a secret but a wonderful and triumphant love story.
Once discovered, it swiftly transformed into a national scandal fast-fueled by every tabloid excess. Under intense pressure from his family and the horrors of a suppressed scandal in the Rhinelanders' past, Leonard was forced into court to annul the marriage, claiming deception. What followed was a crisis in the courtroom that captured national attention and exposed the fault lines of race, class, sex, and privileged power in America.
Newspapers across the country followed the trial in relentless detail. Headlines blared. Crowds gathered. Inside the courtroom, Alice's life was dismantled piece by piece-her past, her appearance, her marriage, and the private moments she and Leonard believed belonged only to them. What was represented as a legal dispute became a vicious invasion into the intimacy of two people's lives.
Black and White and Read All Over returns to the Rhinelander case as it was lived, not merely reported. Drawing on trial transcripts, contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and diary entries, the novel reveals a marriage sustained by private correspondence, which in turn was publicly dissected. Through Alice's voice in particular, the book traces the cost of loving across chasms that American society refused to relinquish.
This is a story of love under surveillance, of power on display, and of a woman forced to assert her humanity in a courtroom and in a culture determined to deny the bigotry that defined both.
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