These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Other Powers: by Barbara Goldsmith.
A promising must read about Victoria Woodhull - a suffragist candidate for presidency before women could vote, first woman stock broker in New York with her sister, advocate of women's rights, spiritualist - and other details of the era, such as debates post civil war and reforms about vote for black males vs white women (didn't occur to anyone such pitting of disfranchised against one another was unnecessary and served the masters, although it must have occurred to the said masters and hence the debate), scandalous trial involving Henry Ward Beecher the minister (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe) who was sued for having sex with another man's wife, and so on - biography and history of the era.