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POLITICAL WIVES FIRST LADIES (OR FIRST LADY ADJACENT)
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by Susan Wittig Albert
When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of 1932 Democratic candidate FDR, the women become deeply, intimately involved.
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by Rochelle Alers
Three of Washington D.C.'s glamorous socialites meet at a political fundraiser and become fast friends. As their friendship deepens they share the trials and tribulations that go along with being married to influential men in Washington D.C.
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by Louis Bayard
When sparky and independent Mary Todd arrives in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1840s to live with her sister, who is determined to find Mary a husband, she is astonished to find herself drawn to an awkward, melancholic lawyer with a gift for oratory. The two share ambition, an obsession with politics -- and a need to be suitably married off.
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by Ann Beattie
Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man.
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by Amy Bloom
Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor.
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by Rita Mae Brown
A fictional diary captures the life of Dolley Madison, wife of America's fourth president, in 1814, as she copes with war with Great Britain and her husband's unpopularity with the American people.
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by Christopher Buckley
Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States. In the midst of a bedroom spat, she allegedly hurled a historic Paul Revere spittoon at him, with tragic results. The attorney general has no choice but to put the First Lady on trial for assassination.
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by Jennifer Chiaverini
Despite her new husband's objections, Julia kept as her slave another Julia, known as Jule. Since childhood they had been companions and confidanted. But beneath the gathering clouds of war, the stark distinctions between mistress and slave inevitably strained and altered their tenuous friendship.
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by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending -- his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave, successful life
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by Mary Higgins Clark
The role of leader came naturally to George Washington, the first president of the United States, and the man revered as the father of his country. But when it came to the social aspects of life in the mid 18th century, he was both awkward and insecure, and finally it was only through the love of a woman that he found happiness.
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by Stephanie Dray
Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal - but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.
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by Barbara Hambly
As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart.
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by N. M. Kelby
After Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic pink suit becomes entrenched in the world's collective memory for all the wrong reasons, the young, Irish immigrant seamstress at New York's Chez Ninon boutique who worked on it feels her world being torn apart.
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by James Patterson
When the First Lady disappears after her husband’s affair goes public, top secret agent Sally Grissom is charged with finding her and is faced with a twisted case after the White House receives a ransom note -- along with the First Lady’s finger.
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by Gill Paul
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious -- and unfaithful -- man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes.
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by Alice Randall
Abel Jones Jr., a civil rights lawyer's son turned black Washington neo-con, has met an unlikely end: collapsing at the Rebel Yell dinner theater, surrounded by actors in Confederate regalia, with his white second wife at his side. Hope Jones Blackshear, Abel's first wife and mother of his only son, is left confounded by the turn his life took in his later years..
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by Susan Holloway Scott
Today Aaron Burr is remembered more for the fatal duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. But long before that single shot destroyed Burr's political career, there were other dark whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever he believed should be his.
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by Curtis Sittenfeld
An elementary-school librarian marries the least promising son of an old-moneyed, intensely competitive Republican family and sticks by him as he rises from hard-drinking fool to unpopular U.S. President.
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by Stephanie Thornton
Born into luxury and beauty, young Jacqueline Bouvier aspires to be more than the Debutante of the Year. A whirlwind courtship and fairy-tale wedding to war-hero John F. Kennedy propels her into a startling new world of power and politics.
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by Jennifer Weiner
When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician's wife--her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator.
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