Table of Contents
Prologue xi
1 The Cover-Up 1
2 A Bad Day 5
3 The First Mrs. Wilson 13
4 "The President is Paralyzed!" 25
5 A Modern Woman 33
6 Less Is More 39
7 Teddy and Woodrow 47
8 Attack From Within 53
9 The Ardent Lover 59
10 "The Whole Body Will Become Poisoned" 65
11 Christmas on the Bottom of the Ocean 71
12 "A Small-Caliber Man" 75
13 "We Shall Be At War With Germany Within a Month" 81
14 Edith and Major Craufurd-Stuart 87
15 The Garfield Precedent 91
16 Cupid's Triumph 97
17 The Petticoat Government 105
18 The Other Woman 117
19 Mr. And Mrs. President 123
20 The League Fight 129
21 Mrs, Edith Goes to Washington 143
22 Citizen Kane 149
23 The Snows of Sierra Nevada 157
24 A Smelling Committee 167
25 The Shadow of War 173
26 The Coal Strike and Palmer Raids 183
27 The War to End All Wars 187
28 Sunset Boulevard 195
29 All Quiet on the Western Front 199
30 Judas 205
31 The Suffragettes 213
32 Our Own Country 221
33 As Dead As Marley's Ghost 231
34 On the Road 241
35 Merciless to the End 249
36 A Broken Piece of Machinery 255
37 Edith at Large 259
38 The First Woman President 267
Acknowledgments 275
Select Bibliography 277
Notes 283
Index 317