Everyone interested in the history of women's rights will be fascinated.
The Woman Who Ran For President
The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull
Description
Victoria Woodhull was a feminist pioneer who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress and the first woman to run for president. A beautiful woman and a spellbinding public speaker, she was also a figure of scandal--a divorcee and practicing clairvoyant turned muckracking newspaper publisher, a free-love advocate (and practitioner), and a socialist.
Pages347
Released1995
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLyons
ISBN9781461739340
SellerSimon & Schuster
Reviews
Woodhull campaigned to full houses across the country, espousing votes for women, free love and the right of women to earn money and own themselves...Underhill reveals wonderful things herself, in language as resplendent and eloquent as that of her subject.
A vivid and detailed biography based upon newly available documentary sources...of a charismatic but maverick 19th century feminist
