President in Love

By Edwin Tribble (editor),

Book cover of President in Love: The Courtship Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt

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225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company (ISBN 0395294827).

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1 author picked President in Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tracey Enerson Wood

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This is a collection of the letters between President Woodrow Wilson and his future second wife, Edith Bolling.

I already knew a bit about the role of Edith Bolling Wilson during her husband’s presidency. Reading their actual letters both shocked and entertained me. Woodrow Wilson, unlike his staid, professorial reputation, was quite the romantic.

It made me realize there was much, much more to their story, and it sent me on a journey to discover a relationship that changed the course of history.

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