{"product_id":"wondrous-beauty-the-life-and-adventures-of-elizabeth-patterson-bonaparte","title":"Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCarol Berkin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307592781\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the award-winning historian: the remarkable life of \"the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore,\" whose marriage in 1803 to Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political nineteenth-century histories of the United States, France, and England. From the author of \"Revolutionary Mothers\" (\"Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don't miss it.\"-Thomas Fleming) and \"Civil War Wives\" (\"Utterly fresh...Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.\"-Jay Winik). \u003cbr\u003eIn \"Wondrous Beauty,\" Carol Berkin tells the story of this audacious, outsize life: how her romantic, passionate marriage infuriated Napoleon and resulted in his banning the then-pregnant Betsy Bonaparte from disembarking in any European port, demanding that his brother either lose all power and remain married to that \"American girl\"-or renounce her, marry a woman of Napoleon's choice, and reap the benefits. Jerome ended the marriage and was made king of Westphalia; Betsy fled to England, and gave birth to her son and only child, Jerome's namesake. \u003cbr\u003eBerkin writes how this naive, headstrong American girl returned to Baltimore a cynical, independent woman, refusing to seek social redemption and return to obscurity through a quiet marriage to a member of Baltimore's merchant class; how she disdained America's obsession with money-making, its growing ethos of democracy, and the rigid gender roles that confined women to the parlor and the nursery, and sought a European society where women created salons devoted to intellectual life and where traditions of aristocracy dominated society; and, we see how as a shrewd investor she transformed a modest pension from the French government into a fortune that rivaled many a (male) financier.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte | Carol Berkin | Hardcover | 9780307592781 | Used: Very Good | Biography 1630758","offer_id":50702447739138,"sku":"1630758","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71o2Pe8_zUL.jpg?v=1791623269","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/wondrous-beauty-the-life-and-adventures-of-elizabeth-patterson-bonaparte","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}