American Wife

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In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell''s husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial.

But it is Alice''s own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itse...