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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."
A New York Times notable book. Best of the Year in Nonfiction—Boston Globe. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fianlist.
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Dalal Almansour
reviewed Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull on March 08, 2018 Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
This book was great! It was such a thorough examination of the context surrounding spiritualism and women's suffrage. I learned a ton, and I was also very frustrated. Reading about how fractured the suffrage movement was reminds me of some of the bs going on today. Obviously we never learn from history. And I knew some details about how some suffrage leaders were basically shitty people, but this book really brought out information that I think is brushed under the rug a lot. Many of them were very racist and still very sexist at their core. While Victoria Woodhull was painted as corrupt, scandalous, and problematic during her time, I honestly think she's the most legit of all these women!
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