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Affairs of State: Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple - Hardcover

Troy, Gil

 
9780684828206: Affairs of State: Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple

Synopsis

Containing anecdotes from the marital and political lives of ten post-war US presidents and their wives, this book examines the intimate relationships and not-so-intimate politics of White House couples. The modern First Lady does her own campaigning, travelling, lobbying and handling of the media, and the First Couple has become as much a political partnership as a romantic and companionate one. The author offers advice for the Clintons for their second presidential term, and explores the social and electoral tensions embodied in the nation's foremost paragons - and pariahs - of public and private leadership.

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