Book summary

A biography of one of America's most controversial and least-known suffragettes, written by a journalist for the Reuters organization. Woodhull, the first American woman to run for president, was by turns a stockbroker, a newspaper editor, a clairvoyant, a convict, and a spiritualist. Far more radical in her ideas--she was an early proponent of "free love"--than either Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was shunned by the leaders of the feminist movement toward the end of her life and is largely forgotten today. A "New York Times" Notable book for 1998.

Media reviews

"Through a combination of solid social history and vivid period detail, Gabriel conveys just how iconoclastic Woodhull was not only for her era but also among first-wave feminists."