![]() ![]() ![]() the first woman to address a joint session of Congress, where-backed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. spiritual and financial advisor to Commodore Vanderbilt. Victoria Woodhull, billed as a clairvoyant and magnetic healer-a devotee and priestess of those "other powers" that were gaining acceptance across America-in her father's traveling medicine show. This is history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the 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. Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. ![]()
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