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Other Powers

Other Powers

Goldsmith, Barbara

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0060953322
ISBN13: 9780060953324
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Mar 24 1999
Pages: 560
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.48 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman and by Gloria Steinem as more memorable than a dozen histories.

A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull--psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free love. It is set amid the battle for women's suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle for the right to vote.

Peter Gay found Other Powers Irresistible...this is a biography guaranteed to keep the reader reading. And Gloria Steinem called it A real-life novel of how one charismatic woman...turned women's suffrage, the church, New York City, and much of the country on its ear.

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