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Rebecca Boggs Roberts's 'Untold Power' is a riveting look at a president's powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal his illness.

By Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Our guest is Rebecca Boggs Roberts, award-winning educator, author, speaker, and historian. We talk about her new biography, UNTOLD POWER: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson.

Wall St. Journal book reviews and ideas, author interviews, excerpts, news on best sellers, fiction, non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs.

Edith Wilson dated and then married Woodrow Wilson while he served as president of the United States in 1915. In her new biography, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson, author Rebecca Boggs Roberts – daughter of the late NPR founding mother Cokie Roberts – explores Wilson's influential role in her husband's administration. But as Roberts tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, at a time when women didn't yet have the right to vote, Wilson o...

A new book paints the wife of President Woodrow Wilson as a complex change-maker who refused to blend into the background

With her new book, Rebecca Boggs Roberts finds a tale that hasn’t yet been fully told about First Lady Edith Wilson.

Ohio Wesleyan Awards Nearly $58,000 in Fall OWU Connection Grants

Christina MacIntosh argues that the push for Women in STEM may serve the government and private companies more than the general public. "We should always be…

Saint or Sinner: The Complex Legacy of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, documentary debuts at Beaver Station Cultural & Event Center