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"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
- John Christian Bovee
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ZIN Product Number: 10007534
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 531 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060953322
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
This book interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of 19th-century America with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull -- spiritualist, suffragette, and the first woman to address a joint session of Congress.
| | | | From The Publisher
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, spiritual and financial advisor to Commodore Vanderbilt; Tennessee Claflin, sister of Victoria; Henry Ward Beecher, the great preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church; Lib Tilton, angelic, obedient wife of Theodore Tilton; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Anna Dickinson, model for Verena Tarrant in Henry James's The Bostonians; Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune; and Anthony Comstock, U.S. special postal agent. All of these people play major roles in this compelling book. Barbara Goldsmith draws on ten years of research and letters, diaries, newspaper clippings, and court transcripts to tell the story of a woman who embodied - and lived - the tumults that were shaping the America of her time.
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A New York Times notable book. Best of the Year in Nonfiction—Boston Globe. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fianlist.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Woodhull was a psychic, sufragette, stockbroker, and presidential candidate in late 19th-century New York City. "Irresistable...this is a biography garanteed to keep the reader reading"--Peter Gay
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
This fascinating story of a remarkable woman illuminates the vagaries of religion, sex, finance, and feminism in Victorian America. —Arthur Schlesinger
One of our foremost social historians has brilliantly woven a scrupulously documented and vivid tapestry of an era. —Robert Caro
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