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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Twelve
Publication date
March 4, 2014
Pages
401
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780446570237
ISBN-10
0446570230
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$28.00
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume One: Rise to Riches | King Lehr | The Woman Who Ran for President | The Murder of the Century | Notorious Victoria | Other Powers
Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume One: Rise to Riches | King Lehr | The Woman Who Ran for President | The Murder of the Century | Notorious Victoria | Other Powers
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays bare the manners and mores of Victorian America, remarkably illuminating the struggle for equality that women are still fighting today.
Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin-the most fascinating and scandalous sisters in American history-were unequaled for their vastly avant-garde crusade for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence. They escaped a tawdry childhood to become rich and famous, achieving a stunning list of firsts. In 1870 they became the first women to open a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for nearly a century. Amid high gossip that he was Tennie's lover, the richest man in America, fabled tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, bankrolled the sisters. As beautiful as they were audacious, the sisters drew a crowd of more than two thousand Wall Street bankers on opening day. A half century before women could vote, Victoria used her Wall Street fame to become the first woman to run for president, choosing former slave Frederick Douglass as her running mate. She was also the first woman to address a United States congressional committee. Tennie ran for Congress and shocked the world by becoming the honorary colonel of a black regiment.
They were the first female publishers of a radical weekly, and the first to print Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in America. As free lovers they railed against Victorian hypocrisy and exposed the alleged adultery of Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher in America, igniting the "Trial of the Century" that rivaled the Civil War for media coverage. Eventually banished from the women's movement while imprisoned for allegedly sending "obscenity" through the mail, the sisters sashayed to London and married two of the richest men in England, dining with royalty while pushing for women's rights well into the twentieth century. Vividly telling their story, Myra MacPherson brings these inspiring and outrageous sisters brilliantly to life.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Twelve (March 4, 2014)
9780446570237 | details & prices | 401 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $28.00
About: A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world.
About: A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Twelve (March 3, 2015)
9780446570244 | details & prices | 399 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $16.00
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