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"From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time-the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including...
22) The Walker
Publisher
ThinkFilm
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Language
English
Description
An escort finds himself the chief suspect in a murder case when he covers for one of his socialite customers, when she finds herself involved in a scandal.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After nineteen years of being the perfect wife to an ambitious politician, Fanny Savage is restless. Tired of merely keeping quiet and looking good at public engagements, she remembers the career she abandoned and the life she left behind as a successful partner in her father's Italian wine business. She has devoted two decades to being the Good Wife. Was it worth it after all? Could it be time for a trip back to Italyto the pleasures of sun,...
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future. Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indiana, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete...
26) The other Mrs. Kennedy: Ethel Skakel Kennedy : an American drama of power, privilege, and politics
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
America possesses indelible images of Ethel Skakel Kennedy: the vivacious political partner vigorously campaigning next to her ambitious husband; an American madonna, surrounded by her brood of eleven children; most poignant, a grief-stricken wife cradling her husband's head as he lay mortally wounded.
Unlike her glamorous sister-in-law Jackie, Ethel felt a compulsive need to prove herself "more Kennedy than thou." Because of her unrelenting loyalty,...
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hamilton, the musical, is igniting American history fever in adults and kids--especially about the central figures of the play. Kids clearly want to know more, and this companion to early reader Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father will fill the void. Eliza Hamilton was so much more than just Alexander Hamilton's wife. She was a spirited girl who grew up to be a strong woman with a big heart and amazing strength of character. She rescued...
29) Malicia
Author
Series
Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
1996
Language
Español
Description
On the evening of her mother's funeral Grace Adams decides she has had enough and shoots her father when he tries to molest her once again. After two years of prison, it looks like Grace is going to be able to go on with her life, but the past seems to keep resurfacing.
31) The Widow
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jody Asher had a plan. Her charismatic husband, Martin, would be a political icon. She, the charming wife, would fuel his success. For fifteen congressional terms, they were the golden couple on the Hill. Life was good. Until he wasn't. Martin's secret affair with a young staffer doesn't bother Jody personally. But professionally? It's a legacy killer. Soon a reporter gets word of this scandal in the making, and Martin's indiscretions threaten to...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Inez Christian is the wife of a man who wants to be the President of America. She, the daughter of an Hawaiian congressman, is also the lover of another, who inhabits that mirror world in which national, business and intelligence interests merge. The story moves from Inez's Hawaiian childhood to the smoke-filled rooms of city powerbrokers. --alibris.com
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale. Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Alicia Florrick is a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. In Season Two, even with her husband back home and planning to run for office again, Alicia continues redefining herself and her role in her family's life. Features all 23 dramatic episodes, plus featurettes, deleted scenes, music videos, and more....
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"To everyone who knows her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. She's a permanent member of the PTA, never misses her kids' sporting events, and is constantly campaigning for her husband's mayoral race.No one knows that Annalise was once Deidre O'Reilly, a troubled young woman whose testimony put a dangerous criminal behind bars. Relocated through the Witness Security Program to the sleepy town of Deep Haven, Deidre got a new identity and...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Karen Pence served as the Second Lady of the United States during one of the country's most tumultuous political seasons. In this inspiring memoir, she tells how, through it all, God gave her peace and purpose"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Cady Davenport's husband-to-be hits the road for the upcoming presidential election, she realizes she's on her own, and that her dream life might not be all she'd imagined. That is, until she finds herself thrust into the middle of the most influential inner circle in Washington, D.C.-- the campaign widows.
40) Beautiful lies
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.