HIDDEN POWER: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
Kati Marton, . . Pantheon, $25 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-375-40106-0
The saying that behind every powerful man is a powerful woman guides Marton's exploration of presidential marriages, from the Wilsons to George W. and Laura Bush. Sometimes Marton points out the obvious: most presidential couples have been middle-aged, and no one got divorced after leaving office. Even in the chapters on individual couples, Marton rehearses themes that will already be familiar to many readers: after Woodrow Wilson had a stroke, his wife Edith ran the country as a sort of deputy president (Marton doesn't bring to this story the kind of originality that Phyllis Lee Levin's does in
Reviewed on: 08/20/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 704 pages - 978-0-7838-9761-5
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