• Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: American Wife

  • Aug 31 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: American Wife

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  • The penultimate episode in our Great Political Fictions re-release 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?


    Tomorrow: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton


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