This would include her selection of Palin-esque Democrat Tara Meyers as her new vice president, to head a startling, two-party Unity ticket. A debatable emergency decision by Defense Secretary Roger Taylor thrusts all three women into the limelight at an unfortunate time, when Charlotte is making important choices for the next four years. She gets no help at all from her husband, Peter, whose affair with Dale becomes public just in time to complicate the whole situation. Ambushed like all presidents by the sometimes murky details of other people’s lives and intentions, Charlotte struggles to bring her first term to a fitting close with the hope of running again. This story instead covers the private lives of three women: the first female president, Charlotte Kramer her White House chief of staff, Melanie Kingston and Dale Smith, White House correspondent. Wisely, though, she doesn’t push the protocol. Bush), as well as a campaign advisor for John McCain and Sarah Palin, she has pretty much been there and known that. As a former White House Communications Director (under George W. Wallace didn’t have to interview anyone but herself about internal operations within the 18 acres of the title-that is, the White House. There is one thing you can be sure of in Nicolle Wallace’s debut novel: Every background detail and procedural item is accurate to the very last degree.
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