Born right into a poor, abusive family in 1838, Victoria Woodhull doesn’t have a lot hope of a snug life. However she’s sensible, charismatic and has an uncanny means to learn folks, managing to forge a path to Wall Road and the publishing world. When Woodhull decides to run for president, she understands that capturing folks’s consideration can be key to success. However capturing consideration and controlling it transform two very various things.
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The important thing supply for this episode of Cautionary Tales is The Unbelievable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Lady to Run for President (2025) by Eden Collinsworth.
It additionally attracts on the next articles, books and web sites:
“The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case“, Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, vol. 5, no. 7 (2nd November 1872)
“Infamous Victoria: the primary girl to run for president” by Eileen Horne, The Guardian, (twentieth July 2016)
“Ethical Pests“, The Dundee Courier (twenty third November 1872) “Printing Newspapers 1400-1900: A Temporary Survey of the Evolution of the of the Newspaper Printing Press” by Joanna Colclough, Headlines and Heroes: Newspapers, Comics and Extra Nice Print (twenty first April 2022)
“Designing Organisations for an Data-Wealthy World” by Herbert Simon, in Computer systems, Communications, and the Public Curiosity (1971)
The Consideration Retailers by Tim Wu (2016)
