What Victoria Woodhull’s Presidential Run Can Teach Us About America Today
On April 2, 1870, two years before the 1872 U.S. presidential election, a letter to the editor of the New York Herald appeared in its pages, announcing a campaign for the presidency against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant. The letter was signed by Victoria Woodhull.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]Woodhull, who had been born poor in an Ohio frontier settlement, embodied the ethos of America, a try-anything country with radical individualism at its heart. Despite a childhood mired in poverty and dictated by physically abusive parents...
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