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Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fans fell in love with Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton--Alexander Hamilton's devoted wife--in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical phenomenon Hamilton. In Alexander's last letter to Eliza before he died, he described her as the 'best of wives, best of women.' Yet Eliza remains a mystery, her story largely unknown to many. [This book] provides a riveting and fascinating account of this truly remarkable woman. Mazzeo follows Eliza through the many ups and downs...
Author
Language
English
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Description
First published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
True-crime writer Denise Burke, whose husband is a White House adviser, investigates murder in a Rhode Island town, heavy with tension between Wasps and Ethnics. She has an affair with a congressman who tipped her to the crime and who is subsequently murdered. By the author of Masters of Illusion.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick not only deals with her career but also with keeping her family together as she provides a stable home for her two children.
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....
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
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's attempts to keep the Catholic Church from granting her former husband, Congressman Joseph Kennedy, an annulment of their twelve-year marriage; discussing the experiences of other women who have struggled with this issue, and looking at the uses and frequency of annulment in the U.S.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn't know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin--who is running for governor--is her prime suspect. Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is,...
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Language
English
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Description
After plastic surgery following a jet crash, television reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for rich Texas senator Tate Rutledge's wife and finds herself keeping the false identity in order to save her "husband" from an assassination plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
She was the daughter of powerful Missouri politician Thomas Hart Benton and was a savvy political operator who played confidante and advisor to the inner circle of the highest political powers in the country. He was a key figure in western exploration and California's first senator, and became the first presidential candidate for the Republican Party--and the first candidate to challenge slavery. Both shaped their times and were far ahead of it, but...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a ... look at Washington, D.C., and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history"--Amazon.com.
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