MacPherson offers a balanced and nuanced view of the roles of Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie Claflin as early agitators for social reform. One of the best books about Woodhull and Claflin I have read. MacPherson provides a well researched narrative that counters some of the more speculat...
Case in point: Society should leave “the love affairs of the community to regulate themselves, instead of trusting to legislation to regulate them.” This is not a modern-day activist cheering the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, but Woodhul...