Barbara Goldsmith
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
Barbara Goldsmith
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…
