Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America

by Christine Leigh Heyrman

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A thwarted love triangle of heartbreak rediscovered after almost two hundred years--two men and a woman of equal ambition--that exploded in scandal and investigation, set between America's Revolution and its Civil War, revealing an age in subtle and powerful transformation, caught between the fight for women's rights and the campaign waged by evangelical Protestants to dominate the nation's culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525655573
• ISBN13: 9780525655572
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.3"