Pity Liza Mundy, the author of the first of an anticipated bevy of biographies about America's next first lady. "Michelle: A Biography" is a pedestrian piece by a writer caught between two big ...

Of history's many stories of a power behind the throne, one of the most intriguing is that of Edith Wilson, first lady to President Woodrow Wilson. She met and married him in 1915, while he was ...