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(At the instructor’s request, the date of this class has been changed from May 22 to June 19.) Edith Bolling Galt Wilson climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power, and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was.
