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Havelin, Kate

Victoria Woodhull: Fearless Feminist

112 pp. | Twenty-First Century | October, 2006 | Library ISBN 0-8225-5986-2 $30.60

(3) 4-6 Trailblazer Biography series. This thorough biography traces the extraordinary, controversial life of early feminist Victoria Woodhull, from her younger days as a spiritual healer through her later life as a suffragette and pioneering businesswoman and, most notably, the first female presidential candidate in the United States. Woodhull's outspoken ways and progressive thinking are supported in the text by photographs and speech excerpts. Reading list, source notes, websites. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin