My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives

My Dear President is a historic, heartfelt collection of letters between first ladies and presidents — including many that have never been published — that casts a warm, new light on our leaders at their most open-hearted and vulnerable.

"I am very madly in love with you," wrote Lyndon Johnson to his future wife, Bird Taylor. James Madison sent off this plaintive line to his wife Dolley: "Every thing around and within reminds me that you are absent." In this inspiring collection of corresp...