Article: Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman--and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-century America.(Review)

Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman--and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-century America By Alan Pell Crawford Simon & Schuster, 333 pages, $2Z50

How Nancy Randolph, "the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great planters," became "the Jezebel of the Old Dominion," a woman variously accused of adultery, infanticide, murder, prostitution, and miscegenation (and that's just what her family said about her), is the subject of Alan Crawford's entertaining and often poignant new book.

Nancy's fortune, both good and ill, flowed from her bloodline. "Only a Randolph is good enough for a Randolph," went a Virginia adage, and the ...

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