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

Barbara Goldsmith

Aug 2011 · Sold by Knopf

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

While the book appears impressive and many people consider it a good read, it's the most inaccurate of the Woodhull biographies. She gets names, dates, places, and facts wrong. Goldsmith never found a salacious or sensational source that she didn't like. This biography should be under the category of historical fiction.

About the author

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