The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
Rogers...has a light touch and offers a scrupulously evenhanded assessment of her subject ... Avoiding straightforward chronology, Rogers layers Jill Biden’s story within thematic chapters on her predecessors.
Rogers is a gimlet-eyed White House reporter for the New York Times who writes with more verve than many on the beat, and she has studded her book with delicious aperçus and insider tea ... Even in the 21st century, the first lady role clings tenaciously to the past — its evolution a succession of baby steps mastered in high heels, accompanied by a gracious wave and a constant smile.
Ocasionally, American Woman can feel slight because of how thoroughly the lives of these women have been picked clean already.Rogers is as tough on the Bidens as you can be while holding down a job as a White House reporter, a position that relies on continued access. The result is a narrative stuffed with intimate anecdotes.
