{"product_id":"other-powers-9780060953324","title":"Other Powers","description":"Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as \"a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman\" and by Gloria Steinem as \"more memorable than a dozen histories.\" \u003cp\u003e A highly readable combination of history and biography, \u003cem\u003eOther Powers\u003c\/em\u003e interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull--psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free love. It is set amid the battle for women's suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle for the right to vote. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Gay found \u003cem\u003eOther Powers\u003c\/em\u003e \"Irresistible...this is a biography guaranteed to keep the reader reading.\" And Gloria Steinem called it \"A real-life novel of how one charismatic woman...turned women's suffrage, the church, New York City, and much of the country on its ear.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldsmith, Barbara:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Barbara Goldsmith is a social historian and the author of \u003cem\u003eLittle Gloria...Happy at Last\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJohnson v. Johnson.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513728110866,"sku":"9780060953324","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f09d668-128f-4a26-9743-7c78062ece9b.jpg?v=1730965908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/other-powers-9780060953324","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}