Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull - Couverture rigide

Goldsmith, Barbara

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ISBN 10 : 0394555368 ISBN 13 : 9780394555362

Editeur : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

Synopsis

Other Powers Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, an illustrated history profiles the most outstanding figures of America's Victorian era, principally Victoria Woodhull, a pioneering female politician, libertine, and onetime prostitute. 60,000 first printing. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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."

Biographie de l'auteur :

Barbara Goldsmith is a social historian and the author of Little Gloria...Happy at Last and Johnson v. Johnson. She lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0394555368
• ISBN 13: 9780394555362
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 530