New book "The Scarlet Sisters: Sex Suffrage and Scandal in the Gilded Age." The real story of torrid VIctorian sisters who shattered Wall Street, politics and the suffrage movement with their amazingly avant garde fight for sexual, political and financial freedom.Washington Post:"MacPherson's enchanting dual biography…hammers home that even in 2014 men use women's bodies as political bargaining chips."New Yorker: "A lively account of the unlikely lives of the 'two most symbiotic and scandalous sitters in American History.;" Boston Globe: “In this sweeping, engaging new biography, Myra MacPherson chronicles lives that intersected with nearly all of the era’s great themes and famous figures.’”THE SCARLET SISTERS has everything‹from history and intrigue, to sex andmoney...A fabulous delight of a read.²‹Jim Lehrer, former PBS Newshour Hostauthor of Top Down; a Novel of the Kennedy Assassination."MacPherson crusades" for the Scarlet Sisters. New Yorker³Read the Epilogue first, to understand immediately why the tale ofVictoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin resonates so richly in today¹spolitical world.,,and our contentious twenty-first century issues..wonderfully instructive. .²‹Lynn Sherr, author Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her OwnWords and the forthcoming Sally Ride: America¹s First Woman in Space"Myra Macpherson is a treasure among American historians. [her]riveting, often uproarious chronicle, [captures[ the Sisters' crusades againstbenighted convention ‹Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and author ofMark Twain: A Life“Ordinarily, one would look to the fiction of Twain or Dickens to find a 19th century tale to match the real-life saga of the sisters Claflin-Woodhull. Happily, Myra MacPherson has rediscovered these proto-feminists Carl Bernstein Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, author of A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton and All the President's Men.
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