Other Powers

Other Powers by Barbara Goldsmith. Published by Alfred A Knopf, NY, 1998. 1st Stated Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: V-Fine in Fine DJ. ISBN 0394555368. LCCN 97-49464. The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. This is a history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by mid-century) in an 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, Clairvoyant and Magnetic Healer; Tennessee Claflin, Victoria's sister and also a Clairvoyant, mistress to Commodore Vanderbilt; Henry Ward Beecher, the great preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church; Lib Tilton, wife of Theodore Tilton, whose affair with Henry Ward Beecher led to the shocking Tilton-Beecher Scandal Trial; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, put forth a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments to empower women at the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls; Anna Dickinson, lecturer; Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune; and Anthony Comstock, US special postal agent, enthusiastically in charge of stamping out obscenity and pornography. All of these people play major roles in this compelling book. 531 Pgs. Description text copyright 2002 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 5935.