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

Sinopsis

Why They Stay explores the unique reasoning and motivation behind why political wives stay with their husbands after they 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, she might have ended as the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for U.S. 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.

The couples include: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, Jackie and Jack Kennedy, Valerie Hobson and Jack Profumo, Marion Stein and Jeremy Thorpe, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Wendy and David Vitter, Silda Wall and Eliot Spitzer, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, Gila and Moshe Katsav.

After covering politicians for decades, award-winning journalist Anne Michaud switched her gaze to the women behind the cheating men and found that they remain loyal because of complex, often unconscious forces. From mapping a path to power to laudable notions of holding the family together, Michaud examines the challenging Faustian bargains that political wives grapple with, even as they navigate the public repercussions.

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