Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House
Rebecca Boggs Roberts's 'Untold Power' is a riveting look at a president's powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal his illness.
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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.
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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 often hid her political contributions from the spotlight.