IR VERDICT:
Free love. First-ever women’s brokerage firm. A female candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Sound like today? Nineteenth-century suffragette Victoria Woodhull has already been the subject of a number of fictional and historical accounts. In this second volume of a planned trilogy, Katz melds her speeches and biographical facts in a style he calls “magical realism.” Proponents of today’s feminist and political movements will be fascinated by her travails and triumphs.