Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost

Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Set in and around New York City in the early 19th Century, Victoria Woodhull and sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin take the city by storm as they challenge morality, fashion, economics, social justice, and equal pay for equal work. Leveraging their wealth as the sisters become famous on the lecture circuit, they fight for women’s rights, suffrage and enter into the political arena as Victoria is nominated by the American Equal Rights Party to run for President of the United States and Tennessee runs for Congress.

In this rags to riches saga, the reader experiences Historical Fiction at its best. Filled with facts, articles, and actual speeches by some of the most prominent figures of Victorian America, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher “the Most Famous Man in America,” Cornelius Vanderbilt “the Richest Man in America,” J. P. Morgan, Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, among others, the course of events lead to the “Trial of the Century,” and retribution.

Scandalous engages the reader as the strong female leading characters change the course of history in America—at enormous personal and financial expense.

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Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost

Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Set in and around New York City in the early 19th Century, Victoria Woodhull and sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin take the city by storm as they challenge morality, fashion, economics, social justice, and equal pay for equal work. Leveraging their wealth as the sisters become famous on the lecture circuit, they fight for women’s rights, suffrage and enter into the political arena as Victoria is nominated by the American Equal Rights Party to run for President of the United States and Tennessee runs for Congress.

In this rags to riches saga, the reader experiences Historical Fiction at its best. Filled with facts, articles, and actual speeches by some of the most prominent figures of Victorian America, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher “the Most Famous Man in America,” Cornelius Vanderbilt “the Richest Man in America,” J. P. Morgan, Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, among others, the course of events lead to the “Trial of the Century,” and retribution.

Scandalous engages the reader as the strong female leading characters change the course of history in America—at enormous personal and financial expense.

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Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost

Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost

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Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Set in and around New York City in the early 19th Century, Victoria Woodhull and sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin take the city by storm as they challenge morality, fashion, economics, social justice, and equal pay for equal work. Leveraging their wealth as the sisters become famous on the lecture circuit, they fight for women’s rights, suffrage and enter into the political arena as Victoria is nominated by the American Equal Rights Party to run for President of the United States and Tennessee runs for Congress.

In this rags to riches saga, the reader experiences Historical Fiction at its best. Filled with facts, articles, and actual speeches by some of the most prominent figures of Victorian America, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher “the Most Famous Man in America,” Cornelius Vanderbilt “the Richest Man in America,” J. P. Morgan, Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, among others, the course of events lead to the “Trial of the Century,” and retribution.

Scandalous engages the reader as the strong female leading characters change the course of history in America—at enormous personal and financial expense.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780996486088
Publisher: Top Reads Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 06/04/2018
Series: Victoria Woodhull Saga , #2
Pages: 398
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Neal Katz, a retired entrepreneur CEO, passionately advocates women rights and herstory. Public speaker and raconteur, Neal engages diverse audiences discussing empowerment, feminism, finance, history, and philanthropy. Neal challenges people to be their best, using the banner motto from the first women owned newspaper: UPWARD & ONWARD.
Katz is guided by his own motto, "Live Love" and dedicated to excellence. He has produced world class wines, founded and taken companies public, introduced a new financial paradigm to fund philanthropy, promoted a new healing methodology for psychologists, and loves to sing, read, garden, and cook.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part I – Fame

Chapter 1: NIGHTMARE 3

Chapter 2: SWEET SUCCESS 11

Chapter 3: PRONOUNCEMENTS 28

Chapter 4: IRREPARABLE DAMAGE 39

Chapter 5: HAYSTACK HENRY AND THE BEECHER FAMILY 55

Chapter 6: UPWARD & ONWARD: WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY 63

Chapter 7: MOMENTUM 73

Chapter 8: MEMORIAL: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 91

Chapter 9: ORATORY 105

Part II – Infamy

Chapter 10: HUBRIS 125

Chapter 11: WORDS OF ATTRITION 141

Chapter 12: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS 149

Chapter 13: FREE LOVE 175

Chapter 14: SABOTAGE 181

Part III – Run for President

Chapter 15: A PATCHWORK QUILT 201

Chapter 16: POLITIC 220

Chapter 17: INDOMITABLE 238

Chapter 18: I ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION 253

Part IV – Paradise Lost

Chapter 19: DESTITUTE AND ABANDONED 285

Chapter 20: REVELATIONS: THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL 299

Chapter 21: PERDITION 323

Chapter 22: TRIALS 332

Chapter 23: COLLAPSE 351

Chapter 24: THE STORM 360

Acknowledgements 375

Bibliography 378

Preview of Volume III: Audacious: Paradise Regained 381

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