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

From: National Review | Date: May 4, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Sucker Gene

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, by Barbara Goldsmith (Knopf, 531 pp., $30)

Miss King is the author of The Florence King Reader and other books.

WOMEN'S studies is truly phenomenal, something like parthenogenesis. In 1957 The Lunatic Fringe by Gerald W. Johnson contained a chapter about Victoria Woodhull, but now she gets regular full-length biographies. I reviewed one three years ago, and two more have been published so far this year.

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