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Told with gusto, historical care, wry humor, and crisp insight Boggs Roberts leads us on a spirited expedition in search of Edith, who dared to become that most dangerous thing, a woman wielding power.”. —Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson. Rebecca Boggs Roberts. 3.81. 1,230 ratings198 reviews. A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power.
While this nation has yet to elect its first female president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power.
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rebecca Roberts about her biography of First Lady Edith Wilson, Untold Power. After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, she made decisions for him.
So, in 1919, good thing few people knew that for most of a year the power behind the presidential seal was not Woodrow Wilson—who lay incapacitated by a stroke—but his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. In Untold Power, Rebecca Boggs Roberts paints a vivid and riveting portrait of Edith, in all her prickly, contradictory splendor. Told ...
Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson. A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power.
Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House. Rebecca Boggs Roberts’s ‘Untold Power’ is a riveting look at a president’s powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal...
The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson. Author Rebecca Boggs Roberts. Share Save. Add to Goodreads Look Inside. A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power.
While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.