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Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson

Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson

Hazelgrove, William

Hardcover

Political Biographies20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 162157475X
ISBN13: 9781621574750
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: Oct 17 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four years; yet, in the tenuous peace following the end of World War I, Mrs. Wilson assumed the authority of the office of the president, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband and assuming his role for seventeen long months. Though her Oval Office presence was acknowledged in Washington, D.C. circles at the time--one senator called her the Presidentress who had fulfilled the dream of suffragettes by changing her title from First Lady to Acting First Man--her legacy as First Woman President is now largely forgotten.

William Hazelgrove's Madam President is a vivid, engaging portrait of the woman who became the acting President of the United States in 1919, months before women officially won the right to vote.

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