A new book from Rebecca Boggs Roberts offers a fresh look at First Lady Edith Wilson.
Rebecca Boggs Roberts and I are huddled inside a tiny, century-old elevator in Woodrow Wilson’s former Kalorama home when I notice a small votes for women pin on her dress. The pin makes sense—Roberts is a leading historian of the suffrage movement and has
—but it also strikes me as a tad funny. After all, we’re here to discuss First Lady Edith Wilson, who was decidedly anti-suffrage., is out next month, and in it she argues that Wilson secretly became the nation’s first female acting President at a time when women still couldn’t vote. She took on the role after her husband became incapacitated from a stroke—all while convincing the public that Woodrow was still in charge. Impressive? Yes. Ethical? Of course not.
But Roberts isn’t interested in venerating Wilson as a saint; nor is she looking to magnify the First Lady’s flaws. Rather, she lets Edith be Edith, which is to say messy and complicated, as most humans are. “It’s not only bad history to reduce someone to a good/bad binary, it just isn’t interesting,” says Roberts. Or, as she puts it in the introduction: “Saints are dull.” Yes, it’s true Edith opposed suffrage and appointed herself to a position no one elected her to.
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