CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Wondrous Beauty March 9, 2014
Historian carol berkin is next on booktv. She recounts the life of Elizabeth Bonaparte the onetime wife of the brother jerome and a native of baltimore maryland. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you for coming out on a cold night. Elizabeth patterson bonaparte was a legend, curiosity walking slowly down the streets in the 1870s, her trademark held high above her head to protect her from sun or rain. On the other arm she carried in a laboratory and the wished bag that was rumored to hold all of her jewels to rea rate her dress no longer fashionable perhaps made in that area when...