The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull - Softcover

Underhill, Lois Beachy

 
9780140256383: The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

Synopsis

This remarkable biography captures the strength and spirit of Victoria Woodhull, the controversial feminist who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress (for suffrage), and, in 1872, the first woman to run for U.S. President. "An utterly fascinating, overdue tribute to an extraordinary feminst maverick."--Booklist. of photos.

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Everyone interested in the history of women's rights will be fascinated. -- Katherine Graham The Instrumentalist 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. Los Angeles Times A vivid and detailed biography based upon newly available documentary sources...of a charismatic but maverick 19th century feminist Library Journal

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ISBN 10:  1882593103 ISBN 13:  9781882593101
Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S., 1995
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