Friday, April 15, 2016

Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Vol. 1: Rise to Riches



Inside Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Vol. 1: Rise to Riches:

Outrageous
Title: Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Vol. 1: Rise to Riches
Author: Neil Katz
Publisher: Top Reads Publishing
Pages: 344
Genre: Historical Fiction
Historical fictionalized account of Victoria Woodhull’s rise to presidential candidate and wealth, coming from poverty and abuse.
What compels a woman and her youngest sister to overcome abject poverty and violent abuse to grow up to defy convention and obliterate every barrier to become the first women to own and operate a Wall Street brokerage firm and publish their own newspaper?
How did Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 – 1927) become the first woman invited to speak to the United State Congress, and then the first female to run for president? What made Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1845 – 1923) so beguiling that the richest man in America, Cornelius Vanderbilt, fell completely in love with her?
What caused the sisters to live out their long lives as royalty and peerage in Europe, Victoria living as landed gentry outside of London, and Tennessee in a huge castle like a queen? Why aren’t these empowered and independent women iconic in our culture?
Volume One of The Victoria Woodhull Saga tells the poignant, lascivious, and compelling inside story of how the sisters worked closely with Cornelius Vanderbilt, who at age 74 fell in love with the beguiling 24-year old Tennessee. Victoria provided the titan of industry “Inside Her Information” gathered through the soiled sisterhood, the ladies of the evening working at the top seven brothels servicing the rich and famous of New York City.
This relationship resulted in the great lion of industry having his last public roar as together they manipulated the financial markets and created the impending collapse of the U.S. economy in the gold scandal of 1869. To avert the crash, President Ulysses S. Grant provides the richest man in America insider information on the gold market and telegrams Vanderbilt that his railroad company is “Too Big To Fail!” Vanderbilt was proclaimed “The Savior of the American Economy” for intervening in a crisis he helped create.
View Victorian America through the eyes and thoughts of one of its leading heroines, Victoria Woodhull. Watch as the infighting and elitism of the earliest suffrage women degrading, castigating, and denouncing other passionate suffrage rights women delayed woman suffrage and equal legal standing for five decades. Learn wonderful anecdotes of the origins of products and phrases used today. Learn the story of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, the most popular man in America, who transformed Christianity from his father’s “fire and brimstone” theology to one of a compassionate and loving Jesus, who will redeem all who turn to salvation with complete confession of their sins. The reverend’s personal life did not imitate his lofty and popular theology of his weekly sermons at Plymouth Church. He was a notorious womanizer, often bedding, and sometimes impregnating the wives, sisters, and daughters of his most ardent trackers and deacons of the church.
Written in the first person from Victoria’s viewpoint, Neal Katz weaves a compelling page-turning story that cleverly unfolds history while providing a wonderfully entertaining ride. Katz has pledged one half of book sale proceeds to charities dedicating to the empowerment and sustainable economic improvement of women, especially single mothers.

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Review


The fact that the author has pledged half of the money she makes from this book to charities dedicating to the empowerment and sustainable economic improvement of women, especially single mothers is what first attracted me to this book. I enjoyed reading about this historical time period as well as the woman who were in it. My favorite character in this book would have to be Victoria Claflin Woodhull, though Tennessee Celeste Claflin came in as a close second for me. I enjoyed reading about how these woman rose from poverty to become great. It is inspiring to think that someone with very little can still rise to be great. My favorite part of the book was learning about how Victoria Claflin Woodhull became the first woman invited to speak to the United State Congress in this novel. My only complaint with the book was the fact that it was historical fiction and I had a difficult time telling which parts of the book were fact and which were fiction. I was sent a copy of this book for free for only my honest and unbiased review.

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