The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
Viking
March 2023
On Sale: March 7, 2023
Featuring: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
320 pages ISBN: 0593489993 EAN: 9780593489994 Kindle: B0B3H8HC8D Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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. She
climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the
highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively
acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women
could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow
Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant,
charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated
figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the
position of First Lady into one of political prominence
forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was.
For the first time, we have a biography that takes
an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that
of many powerful American women before and since, one full
of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken
throughout time in order to find security for themselves and
make their mark on history. She was a shape-shifter who was
obsessed with crafting her own reputation, at once deeply
invested in exercising her own power while also opposing
women’s suffrage. With narrative verve and fresh eyes,
Untold Power is a richly overdue examination of one of
American history’s most influential, complicated women
as well as the surprising and often absurd realities of
American politics.
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