Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson Autobiography Just before the war

Just before the war

Yet amid those shifting justifications

Paris lived under constant threat of destruction

The ensuing carnage laid the foundation for World War II and the Cold War that followed

a poor runaway from Massachusetts who joined the Army under a false name

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson Autobiography Just before the warDescription by Rebecca Boggs Roberts Hardcover A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on womens suffrage and powerWhile this nation has yet to elect its first woman presidentand though history has downplayed her rolejust over a century ago a woman became the nations first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She