• The Great Political Fictions: American Wife

  • Jul 14 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
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The Great Political Fictions: American Wife

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  • The penultimate episode in our fictions series is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura Bush. One of the great novels about the intimacy of power and the accidents of politics, it sticks to the historical record while radically retelling it. What does the standard version leave out about the Bush presidency? How does an ordinary life become an extraordinary one? And where is the line between fact and fiction?


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    Next time: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton


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