Madam President : the secret presidency of Edith Wilson / William Hazelgrove.

Author Hazelgrove, William Elliott, 1959- author.

Descriptionxi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Abstract: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 chief executive. 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, she dedicated herself to managing the office of the president, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband. Though her Oval Office authority was acknowledged in Washington 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 the first woman president is now largely forgotten.

ISBN:162157475X

ISBN:9781621574750

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