American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden Audiobook

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• American Woman is a fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington. Katie Rogers’s fresh reporting offers striking revelations about the inner lives of the first ladies. Each of these women has faced the society’s fickle expectations and arbitrary limitations on female power. As wives and mothers, teachers and lawyers, they have carved out unique places in history and helped expand the possibilities for the presidential spouses who will follow.

  — Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women

• American Woman is a triumph. Katie Rogers brings each of her subjects alive on the page with the care, empathy, guts, and first-class reporting chops that have made her one of the most powerful political writers of the century.

  — Olivia Nuzzi, Washington correspondent for New York magazine

• Katie Rogers has expertly managed to shed light on one of the most complex and misunderstood roles in modern politics. With deep reporting and revealing firsthand anecdotes, American Woman takes readers inside the East Wing and into the bizarrely essential role of an American First Lady.

  — Kate Bennett, former CNN White House correspondent, author of Free, Melania

• Hillary. Michelle. Melania. These and other first ladies recognized around the globe by their first names have more behind-the-scenes power than most people realize. With insightful reporting and graceful writing, Katie Rogers illuminates this elite club of American women, including their varied personalities and lasting impact.

  — Mary Jordan, national political correspondent for The Washington Post, author of The Art of Her Deal

• Katie Rogers shows us the knowledge, wisdom, tenacity, and world-building powers some of the most famous women were holding right in front of us.

  — Sam Sanders, founding co-host of The NPR Politics Podcast

• Rogers rigorously examines the notion of legacy and the first lady in the modern era. These women, she maintains, are ‘the most known (and often least understood) women in America.’ Rogers’ unerring journalistic evaluation of the person behind the post should help change all that.

  — Booklist, starred review

• [A] deeply interesting, and thoroughly researched, look at the role of First Lady.

  — Town & Country

• Americans expect a lot from their first ladies and throughout our history many of their contributions have been overlooked. Inspired by a museum exhibit on Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House years that combined substance with style, Katie Rogers explores the challenges first ladies face in both meeting and defying those expectations—ultimately remaining true to themselves turning this unique, undefined role into their own.

  — Anita McBride, executive-in-residence at American University and author of U.S. First Ladies

• From one of our shrewdest students of the Presidency comes this trenchant, fresh and fascinating story of Jill Biden and earlier First Ladies in our time, and how—both in public and private—they have transformed what we should expect of a Presidential spouse.

  — Michael Beschloss

• American Woman is a fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington. Katie Rogers’s fresh reporting offers striking revelations about the inner lives of the first ladies. Each of these women has faced the society’s fickle expectations and arbitrary limitations on female power.

  — Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women

• Americans expect a lot from their first ladies and throughout our history many of their contributions have been overlooked. Katie Rogers explores the challenges first ladies face in both meeting and defying those expectations—ultimately remaining true to themselves turning this unique, undefined role into their own.

  — Anita McBride, executive-in-residence at American University and author of U.S. First Ladies

• Katie Rogers rigorously examines the notion of legacy and the first lady in the modern era. These women, she maintains, are ‘the most known (and often least understood) women in America.’ Rogers’ unerring journalistic evaluation of the person behind the post should help change all that.

  — Booklist, starred review

• A well-written, extensively researched account of a challenging role in the public eye.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• A gripping and elegant patchwork of portraits of the women who have occupied our nation’s strangest and most fraught official role, American Woman is a triumph. Katie Rogers brings each of her subjects alive on the page with the care, empathy, guts, and first class reporting chops that have made her one of the most powerful political writers of the century. Here, Katie achieves what is usually left to history: insight into the sitting First Lady, Jill Biden, who emerges as a character and a force, and above all, as a real person.

  — Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine Washington Correspondent

• Katie Rogers has expertly managed to shed light on one of the most complex and misunderstood roles in modern politics. With deep reporting and revealing firsthand anecdotes, Rogers takes readers inside the East Wing and into the bizarrely essential role of an American First Lady.

  — Kate Bennett, former CNN White House Correspondent, author of Free, Melania

• Hillary. Michelle. Melania. These and other first ladies recognized around the globe by their first names have more behind-the-scenes power than most people realize. With insightful reporting and graceful writing, Katie Rogers illuminates this elite club of American women, including their varied personalities and lasting impact.

  — Mary Jordan, author of The Art of Her Deal

• American Woman is a fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington. Katie’s fresh reporting offers striking revelations about the inner lives of the first ladies, we see them struggle to hold their families together under the world’s most glaring spotlight.The undefined position in American politics comes at a cost. Each of these women has faced the public’s fickle expectations and society’s arbitrary limitations on female power.

  — Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women

• Rogers has shown us all the knowledge, wisdom, tenacity, and world-building powers some of the most some of the most famous women in the world were holding right in front of us for decades (centuries!)

  — Sam Sanders, founding co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast