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02553aam a2200277 4500 001 9B5900603C8411E8B440353897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180410010119 008 170913s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0997663316 Paperback : 020 $a 9780997663310 Paperback : 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Michaud, Anne. 245 1 $a Why They Stay : $b Sex scandals, deals, and hidden agendas of nine political wives. 264 1 $a Huntington, NY : $b Ogunquit-NY Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 279 pages ; $c 6 x 9 in. 500 $a Why They Stay explores the possible reasoning and motivation of wives who stay with their politician-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 took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for 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. After covering politicians for decades, acclaimed columnist Anne Michaud switched her gaze to the women behind the cheating men. Drawing from multiple sources that span the Roosevelts' marriage to the more recent scandal involving Hillary Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin (wife of sexter, Anthony Weiner), Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives argues that when it comes to the "power behind the throne," women in the limelight weigh the risks and rewards. They remain loyal to their men, because of complex, often unconscious forces. From mapping a path to power to laudable notions of holding the family together, Michaud examines the uniquely challenging Faustian bargains that political wives grapple with, even as the public spotlight illuminates their every move. 541 $d 20170913. 650 $a Women in politics. 650 $a Political culture $z United States. 650 $a Sex scandals. 653 $a Women in politics -- Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 1 952 $l SJPB094 $d 20180410010810.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9B5900603C8411E8B440353897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search