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You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.

This is episode 30, and today I'm going to talk about a few great

titles related to the week's new releases and more. So hello it's the

middle of January. It's amazing to me. I don't know how that happened. I have several great books to tell you about today that are related to the week's new releases, but before that happens, you know what's next.

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Dawn of the 20th century by Simon Baths.

It's out now from Mulholland Books, and it's not even based. It's about a true story. In

1901, Evelyn Nesbitt, a New York society darling, dined with Stanford White in his

decadent 24th Street apartment. Evelyn was given Champagne, lost consciousness, and woke in the bed next to White.

An acclaimed architect, a notorious womanizer, White was 47, Nesbitt was just 16.

Four years later, Evelyn married Harry Thaw, a Playboy millionaire rumored to be mentally disturbed.

One night in 1906, a vengeful thaw, shot and killed White before hundreds of theater goers at Madison Square Garden, a venue

designed by Stanford White himself. The murder and ensuing trial were the scandal of the century,

perhaps the nation's first tabloid murder. And Simon Bats is the

award-winning historian who wrote for the thrill of it, which was a New York Times

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