Other Powers

The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

Author: Barbara Goldsmith
ISBN: 9780394555362

From the author of Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again.;;;;;;;; This is history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote.;;;;;;;; The cast includes: Victoria Woodhull, billed as a clairvoyant and magnetic healer--a devotee and priestess of those "other powers" that were gaining acceptance across America--in her father's traveling medicine show . . . spiritual and financial advisor to Commodore Vanderbilt . . . the first wo

Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Political Science / Civil Rights

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