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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
By: Rielle Hunter

John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me

BenBella Books, Inc.
July 2012
On Sale: June 26, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1937856402
EAN: 9781937856403
Kindle: B008AJ2I5S
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The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. β€œOne of the biggest political scandals of all time,” β€œa fall from grace,” β€œa modern-day tragedy”—it’s a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the U.S. government, by supposed friends. However, there is someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day oneβ€”the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter.

In What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn.

Meet Edwards’s political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of β€œfriends,” enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards’s 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel β€œBunny” Mellon and Fred Baron actually went.

This book doesn’t spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn’t about changing anyone’s mind. It’s simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.

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