3/4: Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg (Author)
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
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3/4: Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg (Author)
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The divorce trial Strong v. Strong riveted the nation during the final throes and aftermath of the Civil War, offering a shocking glimpse into the private world of New York’s powerful and privileged elite. Barbara Weisberg presents the chaotic courtroom and panoply of witnesses―governess, housekeeper, private detective, sisters-in-law, and many others―who provided contradictory and often salacious testimony. She then asks us to be the jury, deciding each spouse’s guilt and the possibility of a just resolution
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Island in the World. I'm John Bachelor with Barbara Weisburg. Her new book is strong |
| 0:05.8 | passions, a scandalous divorce in old New York. Edwards gone to war. Mary and Peter now mourn the death of their daughter. |
| 0:14.7 | January 2nd, there's a notice in the newspapers that Elizabeth is gone. |
| 0:19.1 | Mamie, in Ali, or healthy, but Elizabeth is gone. In their grief they console each other and then |
| 0:28.3 | Barbara Mary comes forward to Peter and tells him what? |
| 0:33.0 | She curls comes forward to Peter and tells him what. |
| 0:39.0 | She hurls herself at his feet and says you can't imagine how guilty I have been. For the last 18 months I've been having an affair with Edward, your brother and Peter is of course stunned |
| 0:49.6 | horrified grief stricken. A few weeks later he meets with his father-in-law the distinguished banker John |
| 1:00.0 | Austin Stevens. |
| 1:05.0 | John Austin Stevens doesn't believe it. |
| 1:10.0 | He says you're making this up, you're just so heart sick about the death of your daughter |
| 1:14.9 | you've gone a little crazy and Peter says talk to Mary she'll tell you the truth |
| 1:22.0 | and so John Austin Stevens meets with Mary and as he later |
| 1:28.2 | will say Mary says to him it's true father every word now. There's one more I don't know there's one more catch here |
| 1:38.8 | which is shortly after Mary confesses to Peter that she's been having an affair with Edward, |
| 1:44.9 | she also tells Peter that she is pregnant. And whose baby is it unclear? |
| 1:55.0 | And this created. |
| 1:56.8 | Edwards at war. |
| 1:58.3 | Edwards in the aid to a general, the Burnside expedition, Edward then continues to |
| 2:04.6 | volunteer for roles. We have Edward off scene. We're not going to get to him. He |
| 2:09.9 | won't be home but mutt for an hour in these next years and eventually will be alienated from |
| 2:14.3 | his own family. |
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