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Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

$33.00

Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

SKU: 9780997663310 Category: Product ID: 209648

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Title: Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
Author: MICHAUD ANNE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 14/03/2017
Imprint: GRAYWOLF PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active

Why They Stay explores the possible reasoning and motivation behind why political wives stay with their husbands after the husbands cheat. Hillary Clinton couldn’t have known in 1998 how her husband’s high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She couldn’t be sure, but she took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for president on a major party ticket. Looking back on the path chosen by the nine political wives profiled in this book, we have the evidence to see a pattern as old as the dynastic maneuverings of England’s medieval queens. The women married to the -royalty- of our times, politicians, make similar cold calculations in order to hold onto their -thrones- and their family’s history-making potential. After covering politicians for decades, acclaimed columnist Anne Michaud switched her gaze to the women behind the cheating men. Drawing from multiple sources that span the Roosevelts’ marriage to the more recent scandal involving Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin (wife of -sexter- Anthony Weiner), -Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives- argues that when it comes to the -power behind the throne, – women in the limelight weigh the risks and rewards. They remain loyal to their men, because of complex, often unconscious forces. From mapping a path to power to laudable notions of holding the family together, Michaud examines the uniquely challenging Faustian bargains that political wives grapple with, even as the public spotlight illuminates their every move.

ISBN: 9780997663310
Weight: 426g
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm

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Weight 426 g
Dimensions 229 × 152 mm