- James Gordon Bennett, Jr.proprietor, It is 1868 and spiritualist is smart, sexy and sometimes clairvoyant. But it is her sister, who is going to make history when she becomes the first woman to run for President of the United States. It starts with the seduction of the richest man in America. Next, they'll take New York City and the suffragist movement by storm, because together, Tennessee and Victoria are a force of Nature. Boldly ambitious, they stop at nothing, while they brush shoulders with Harriet Beecher Stowe and Susan B. Anthony, using enough chutzpah to make a lady blush. That is, until their backstabbing family takes them to court. When their carefully spun lives unravel, out in public and in the Press, Tennessee and Victoria become the media's object of ridicule and they are pilliored with contempt. , 1872 , Eugene, Oregon, 1872 Told from shifting points of view and using actual news reportage from the era, gives a riveting inside look into the struggle for women's rights after the Civil War.