Madam President: the Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; One: The Cover-Up; Two: A Bad Day; Three: The First Mrs. Wilson; Four: "The President Is Paralyzed!"; Five: A Modern Woman; Six: Less Is More; Seven: Teddy and Woodrow; Eight: Attack from Within; Nine: The Ardent Lover; Ten: "The Whole Body Will Become Poisoned"; Eleven: Christmas on the Bottom of the Ocean; Twelve: "A Small-Caliber Man"; Thirteen: "We Shall Be at War with Germany Within a Month"; Fourteen: Edith and Major Craufurd-Stuart; Fifteen: The Garfield Precedent; Sixteen: Cupid's Triumph;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 Executive Office. 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, Mrs. Wilson assumed the authority of the office of the president, reading all correspondence intended for her bedridden husband and assuming his role for seventeen long months. Though her Oval Office presence was acknowledged in Washington, D.C.