Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and in 1919 effectively acted as the first female president of the United States when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker, and a leading historian of American women’s suffrage and civic participation.